Greetings. I’m a 62 year-old Australian and a practising Roman Catholic. I don’t have a science degree but I’m fascinated by evolution/creation.

I’m not a Young Earth Creationist - I accept the scientific evidence that suggests life on earth began a very very long time ago and I accept that life began with simple forms that changed and diversified over time, as evidenced by the fossil record.

I accept that Darwinian evolution is the best scientific explanation for the history of life on earth, however I don’t accept that the Darwinian explanation is necessarily the truth. On this point I agree with the late French scientist, Paul-Pierre Grasse - the process that produced the history of life cannot be known and will forever remain a mystery.

I am also sympathetic to ID - evolutionnews.org (Discovery Institute) is my favourite website when it comes to origins science.

I believe God is the author of life and that God guided the history of life on earth, intervening (somehow) to produce new forms of life. I offer no scientific explanation for what produced the history of life on earth; instead, I accept it all as a divine mystery.