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Recently I talked with a religious friend about how I find the body very complex. He then jokingly said to me, assuming I believed in his religion, "can you believe that some people think something as complex as a human crawled out of the ocean?" I shrugged it off as I did not want to ruin my relationship with this person (we live in a society), but his comment did make me think.
Ignoring the complete misunderstanding of evolution that ironically makes it sound similar to a god popping humans into existance, this argument feels like pointing at the pyramids and saying "Humans cannot possibly have built these. Aliens must have created it."
This reminds me of how my anatomy professor would use the phrase "god, nature, and the space aliens" when he used the analogy of design in the human body, both for humor and to avoid offending anyone.
When he taught us the leg muscles, he used one particularly funny example that I still remember. One certain muscle near the knee (that I forget the name of) prevents the knee joint's capsule from getting pinched between the femur and tibia bones when the knee bends. He told us the story of how when god, nature, and the space aliens all got together to design the lower extremities, they had problems with their prototype caveman pinching the knee capsule every time he tried to walk. Luckily, baby Jesus came along on his tricycle and suggested that a muscle pull the capsule away from the bones just before they bend, making it so that the caveman could walk just fine.
Assuming that some sort of intelligent designer designed the human body, it made some pretty serious mistakes. The subpar vascular system in the brain, the optical nerve arising *inside* the eyeball, the sex chromosomes having important non-sex-related information on them...
Anyway, none of this really matters since the past does not actually exist. Who cares if a god made humans, or if we just evolved? Whatever happened, we exist now. I think that we should focus on that rather than debating about something that may or may not have happened an inconceivably long amount of time ago.
All this talk of got'dem aliums makes me want to play Black Mesa. I highly recommend it, I consider it a great example of a remake done well.