Just some thoughts and fuel for discussion. To begin, once you buy into and accept the idea of macroevolution then it does become very sound reasoning. You have microevolution (adaptative smaller changes) to back you up, so you reason there is no other way, except through complete change (macroevolution) given vast amounts of time, pointing out that we are still changing. But, that could only be because microevolution is always happening. You convince yourself that ‘who we are’ has to be through this very slow change, and that our branch ‘threading the eye of the needle’ to humanity as we know it had to happen, otherwise you wouldn’t believe it either… because a faster change would even be magical nonsense to you. TOE does nail it, testifying to humanity’s reasoning capability, even to the point of making people doubt their faith, and the Bible. It is a believable ‘scientific’ mechanism of change for our existence from lower life forms we know existed before us. It had to be that way, you say, and filling in the gaps is okay, because there is no better or even another ‘logical way.’ Then we begin to think we understand ‘time and space’ and the eons, and that it is all predictable according to our understanding. And, for some all by chance… with no need for God.
