<<Dust over most of the earth is primarily silicon. Since I am not primarily
made of silicon, why did God use the silicon?>>
You'll have the chance to ask Him, of course. He may want to ask you why you
constrain Him. If it's God's miracle, why can't he change the chemical
properties any way he likes? If you allow him to fix up a dead hominid, why
can't he fix up dead dust?<<
Jim,
I agree with you that God could have done this, but then why would God put
the pseudogenes, and make us almost like a chimpanzee as far as our DNA is
concerned. If God took the dust and changed it, I see absolutely no reason
why he should have made it appear as if we are closely related to the apes.
The constraint is due to what God did with the "dust". Why didn't He take
that dust and make us an animal with green leaves covering our bodies as a
mark of our separateness? My view explains the data in a way yours doesn't.
glenn