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[pat]

You know how the Intelligent Design people insist that evolution is a crock because things are too complicated, and because scientists can't explain the exact mechanisms by which complicated organisms evolved?

Over at Slacktivist, in a post about something else entirely (Fred's ongoing series dissecting the "Left Behind" books), Fred Clark had a comment which I think takes care of that:

"I am not God's math teacher and I do not need to see all the work."

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[rosefox]

nancylebov now sells a bumper sticker that says "God is who; evolution is how". If I had a car that would be front and center.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Note: I work as an evolutionary biologist (at the DNA level).

I'd have to say, sure, there's a lot of stuff I don't understand and can't explain, but there's enough stuff that I do understand, that if it was directly designed by an intelligent God, said God does need to explain zir working, because so much of it is messy and cludgey. It's really fun teaching this kind of stuff to computer programmers, because they recognise all the compromises and workarounds and just plain weirdness.