Pete, I know you don't want to hear this, but it's true. The fact of evolution has been long know—and used—by farmers, animal breeders, and such, and the mechanism was thoroughly analyzed by a
Christian monk.

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Two things you need to take on board:

1. Evolution is an established and demonstrated fact.

2. If it makes you more comfortable to think in these terms, then evolution is the way God did it. And still does it.

Mendel proved that by demonstrating it.

Don Firth