the universe, in Howard Van Till’s words, as “richly endowed” in a comprehensive way for giving birth eventually to life from within its own inner storehouse of creativity. So the emergence of life, and later of human intelligence, can be pictured more like the sudden budding or blossoming of a flower, embryonically present from the start, rather than something grafted on from outside. We are still far from understanding the details of this marvelous emergence. But we must avoid introducing a “god-of-the-gaps”