I'm a little surprised that amongst the futile attempts to involve pete, Guest from Sanity and Chongo in rational debate, nobody batted an eyelid at Lighter's "I'm not denying that evolution as revealed by science might be guided by God".

Well, quite. I have prattled on about this several times before. At least s/he said "might" and didn't put a figure on it. Bolting on God in that way turns a beautiful story into an inelegant and clumsy hybrid notion. I'd like to know at what point God could possibly have intervened in order to make stuff happen. Seems to me like the laws of nature take care of all it, but hey ho.