Evolution Trumps Creationism

[Tonus]

Theists say, "Well, why couldn't god use the same DNA for various creations?"

This is kind of defensible, IMO. In that the theist puts forth a god that has an intellectual capacity that we cannot match and possibly not even comprehend. "That is how god designed it" is lazy, but it works for their purposes. To me, the more relevant point is this:

Everything humanity has learned, including new fields of study that didn't even exist more than a few decades ago, supports a scientific theory first proposed over 150 years ago.

The anecdote where a scientist points out that "fossil rabbits in the Cambrian" would disprove evolution strikes me as a very compelling argument. A world full of diverse lifeforms can be attributed to a creator under pretty much any circumstances, since we can take the "he's god, he can do that" shortcut. But not so if you are attributing it to natural processes working in ways we can study and comprehend. In that case there should be very many ways in which we can disprove natural processes and must presume god.

Yet after centuries of searching and discovering, everything we learn fits into that natural framework. There are no rabbit fossils in the Cambrian. A person can stare at the night sky and be inspired to imagine a god, but what mankind has learned about the stars continues to fit neatly into a universe without one. That's a striking coincidence, to me.