Jim Muth ponders: ""and if we ever found how to create life from its basic elements in a test tube, would it show that God is not necessary for life to develop, or that an outside intelligence is necessary?"" It only delays the question, because then who/what created US that we could then create the test tube life? And who/what created THEM that created us? If we are the result of alien genetic tampering on pre-human apes (an idea I don't necessarily discredit), how did the aliens get to where they are? At some point there must be a beginning. .