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