Snail, you mean it isn't *possible* that Evolution by Natural Selection, whose principles are discoverable, could *not* have been invented and guided by an Ultrabeing whose existence is beyond the reach of science?

It may be a wacky idea, but that doesn't make it inconsistent with Evolution by NS.

The problem is (apart from the science) that poor old Ultrabeing doesn't belong anywhere in the process, and you can extend that process as far back as you like, right back to the Big Bang. Everything we know about the formation of elements right "up" to the evolution of humans (cheers, Jack ;-) ) can be explained in terms of the laws of nature. As time goes on, science solves more and more of the questions along the way that have puzzled us. What's wrong, inconsistent and incompatible about the Godly bolt-on is that he's an impossibly complex and completely inexplicable intruder into a story that is elegant, clear, normal, largely innocent of assumptions and, ultimately, devastatingly simple. And for which, unlike him, we have evidence.