“Nucleosynthesis in stars and their explosions later produced the variety of elements and isotopes that we have today, in a process called cosmic chemical evolution.”
What about the rules that allow that to happen? The rules that are so sublimely precise and organized that we were able to unravel them into a nice, tidy “periodic” table and even use what we learned of those rules to predict new elements that nobody saw before? Did those rules randomly pop out of an exploding star too? Or does that perhaps require a bit more intelligent of an explanation?
I’m with you on that.