::Okay folks. first, the link above at the end of the quote, is to an "intelligent design book"As for 'god'-: creating the word God, or god is human, as is the topic category of theism. If..... as a human being, a  member of Homo sapiens, you can't or won't study enough to learn the meaning of words, and what science, and a "timeline" of earth history means, then don't pretend to tell others that as a fellow human, that you do understand the linkages, of time & space.I believe we are here by "luck", and we wouldn't be here talking about it, ....if it hadn't happened. Simpson's statement is not a religiously-defined, or definable statement. The whole thing going on in USA, (right now) "Progressive, democratic, (perfectionist)-determinism", was first attempted in the 1800's, with roots in religion in earlier centuries-(also in Science definitions: the battle in the 1800's was between: Castropheism-(god) vs. (a natural 'evolution' system)(Now we know there have been 5 (we perform the ~6th) extinctions-castropheisms-(species extinction, or extirpations). (It is all being sorted-out as we speak, in the USA.) The reason a G.G.Simpson stuck to defining the base layers of a pyramid of understanding, is...  if you don't see how the base layers of knowledge, interrelationships, are,... then you'll never get to the understanding at the apex of the Pyramid, the pyramidion. (the summit, of it obviously)..