made sooo many different forms of life?
Seriously folks, wouldn't a few of each have sufficed? What the heck was he trying to do that required 81,000 different kinds of mollusks and 5,956 species of red algae, to say nothing of almost a million different insects?
Any creationist want to step up to the plate?
2 ways I understand things, with regards to what you're asking.
Something akin to or is a demiurge made physical universe, and in an actual way, is not done manifesting 'things.'
Second way could follow from first, but doesn't need to. Me, I think we might be pieces (spiritually speaking) of that demiurge. Akin, I think to what pantheism suggests, plus what Gnostic teachings get at, plus I'm probably adding in a few of my own thoughts as well. But again, demiurge or spiritual not really needed for this second point. And is realizing that we have ability / power to consciously manifest these things. This is me saying that we are the intelligent designers, we are the ones making, to some degree, the extensive findings of more and more variety in the forms (of life). We believe there is enormous variety, and then we see it, or find further evidence for that. Exponentially growing.
I don't expect either of these ways of understanding things to be accepted by (old school) evolutionists, but am more or less replying in vein of what OP was asking.
