Some level of divine intervention must have been involved, whether some interruptive manufacture or manipulation of the natural components of life (transformational miracles) or outright miraculous acts (transcendent miracles) or some combination of the two. With respect to emergence of soulish (birds and mammals) and spiritual characteristics (humans), outright miraculous acts would appear to be required. When environmental hazards—competition from other species, solar luminosity’s continual increase,
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