“Also I’ve heard of no traditional religious response calling them a ‘separate creation’ - my Bible tells me that God created all creatures - great and small, visible and not visible to the naked eye.”
I respect your faith, as I, too, am a Chrtistian. However, using your faith to either make or dispute scientific findings is pointless. Faith and science coexist and are separate.
Well then evolution would not be nearly as debatable if all science would separate their hopefuls ideas from what can actually be proven scientifically. I concur it would be nice to keep them separate, however I was responding to another poster who thought it necessary to mix the two w/ hopes and dreams regarding achaeobacteria.
Personally the best site I’ve encountered for separating the 2 is creationscience.com