[marvin]

Your application is cool. But are we really going to turn this into a religious discussion? Because it's possible to be a Christian without believing that a man in the sky has personally designed each individual creature on earth. The latter is an extremist view which for some reason has become the mainstream in the US.

[mike-cardwell]

I take issue with your labeling of that particular view as extremist. Evolution guided by Gods hand is as nonsensical as the idea of each individual creature being hand crafted by God. They are both supported by an equal amount of science, I.e none, and should therefore be treated with no greater respect than any other extraordinary claim for which no evidence exists, I.e none.

[etherael]

Well, my point wasn't actually to say that normal-crazy creationist christians who believe in intelligent design not aided by evolution are frothing at the mouth insane as you seem to be implying the original point was; I hold that to be self-evident. It was actually to point out that no divine influence is necessary to posit normal well understood evolution, and this is a nice illustration thereof, and less-crazy non creationist christians aren't really that much better than those they look down their nose at for lacking theological sophistication.

Very kind of you to step in and validate my point by making with the looking down your nose at the creationists, though.

[jarin]

To be honest, the first thing I thought after playing with this for a bit is "hmm, I should show this to my religious friends".

[Joeboy]

Weirdly, it gave me a depressing feeling about the purposeless of life and an unusual feeling of sympathy and envy for people who deal with it through religious faith.

[jarin]

You don't need religious faith for your life to have a purpose. The only difference is you need to/get to choose a purpose, instead of having one dictated to you (which is often vague anyway).