Quote Originally Posted by texstang65
had this convo so many times before...

Darwin himself made the point that Evolution works until you get down to the cellular level.

He observed that there is one part of a cell that couldn't have possibly happened by chance. The mechanism a cell uses to propel itself is an intricate outboard motor that is constructed in such a way that, in Darwin's opinion, it had to have been designed by a "Grand Engineer". By acknowleding this, he himself conceded that there must be a "higher power" be it God, aliens or whatever.
The simple and single celled organisms took a lot longer to evolve than animals. Most of the time the earth has been populated with just bacteria and alage! So, they had a much longer time to evolve those complex proteins that they use for locomotion. It may simply seem impossible because youre looking at an almost incomprehensible amount of time between virus -----> bacteria/alage

A creator god could have just helped guide evolution, without taking a totally direct approach to influencing it.