which every living thing is connected. These ideas are rejected by almost all old and young earth creationists. They are accepted both by theistic evolutionists and the scientific mainstream. A third way of understanding evolution is as a shorthand reference to the neo-Darwinian mechanism to produce “change over time.” Natural selection, random mutations, time, chance, and other mechanisms produce all the life-forms now in existence. There is no need to appeal to direct divine activity. Things around