hya Kate
this has been a great thread
Your conclusion that a creator guided evolution is logical and reasonable - I cannot deny that. hats off to you.
My own conclusions stem from how conditions during the the short period that the early universe was forming favoured one part of a pair over the other for an infinitely short period of time and this resulted in the differences we see over the longer term. It all boils down to the uncertainty principle formulated by Heisenberg in the 1920s.
This principle has exciting and enchanting outcomes as it incorporates an important element of the quantum world - that whatever is allowed to happen will happen sooner or later. The coin toss, probability and change take on new meaning. Some tend to dismiss chance as luck but according to this principle chance is not about luck but is about incorporating all of the steps of the dice throw and the trajectories they follow as part of the chance event - we cannot have one without the others. hope this makes sense