Well, Kevin, I'd reply to the Pope that he's got bit the wrong way round. It would have taken some kind of mysterious Big Bang to create a creator. Unless he has a better idea. As for conflating creationism with evolution, that's very valiant of him but he's catastrophically wrong. There is not one single aspect of evolution that requires any kind of magical intervention. Everything can be explained perfectly by the laws of nature. An immovable tenet of evolutionary theory is that evolution has no predetermined direction and no goals, which is completely at odds with any notion of the intervention of a creator, whether you see him as having kicked it off, driving the process or inserting pieces like a Lego model. The Pope's perfectly welcome to devise his own theory to explain life on earth, of course. I'd be interested to hear his evidence.