So true, I did bert. So thank you for putting time back into the picture.
What Darwinist macroevolution proposes depends implicitly on the presupposition of an eternal universe. That is, a universe without a beginning in time, one that just rolls on forever, without end. If time is "infinite," then even the most "chancy" things will happen in Nature sooner or later. This presupposition is never challenged, never questioned, by Neo-Darwinists.
And yet VERY CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS is amassing evidence that the universe did, indeed, have a beginning in time. Evidently, many evolutionary biologists don't think it's necessary or desirable to notice such findings, as being irrelevant to the biological sciences. That's another very interesting presupposition... one advanced by no less an eminence than the late, great evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr.
Thanks for writing, bert!
Again: oh come on. "Darwinist macroeveolution" is concerned with what has happened on this planet. No one thinks this planet has been around forever, so obviously Darwinists accept the idea that evolution had a beginning--in which case, there's no need to presuppose an eternal universe. Eternal or bounded, it doesn't matter.
So very true, dearest sister in Christ, and the earth is rather new in the history of the universe. There simply was not enough time for the atheist hope that ‘any that can happen did.’