Even though I believe in God, I believe in totally random evolution, a universe that does not necessitate God for it's creation and continued existence, etc. But it's certainly important to play devil's advocate with yourself. When I do, questions like the following come up.

• how easily humans acquire and invent language?
  • Human communication is parsecs beyond the most sophisticated types the animal kingdom can come up with -- say honeybees and whales. To be fair, nobody knows exactly what whale song is all about.
  • Humans have such an intrinsic ability to use language that it happens in all kinds of extreme situations. The best examples I can think of are sign languages, twin languages, and pidgins. Or, this example where deaf Nicaraguan children ended up evolving a a new form of sign language just by going to school together and not being offered an alternative.
• how one solitary evolutionary pressure, living in trees, has conveniently given us so many advantages?
  • Opposable thumbs for grasping branches turned into convenient tool makers...
  • Articulate lips for eating leaves turned into convenient verbalizers...
  • Binocular vision for perceiving depth in the trees...
• how, of the dozen or so known other species in the genus Homo, only Homo Sapiens survived?

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