What I can never figure out is why evolution can not be part of the "intellect's design" if you need that to be true for some reason?

Three words: God Created Evolution.

:::evolution vs. creation debate vanishes in puff of rhetorical smoke:::

That's the stance that the Catholics take. It's one that most scientists can live with, and many (possibly most) subscribe to. It's the Genesis-literalists who keep the debate going.

Yeah, but God said he created the world in 6 days, so if you say God created evolution, then God must be a liar, because evolution says the world is much older than that. We can't have God being a liar. So we have to go with the idea that evolution is wrong. Ya see?

Another thing is that, somehow, the definition of the word God never gets discussed much. To me, God means roughly the same thing as Mother Nature, or, more accurately, the collective organization of natural laws in the universe. That's right: evolution created evolution.

The word "day" is not easily interpreted and has other meanings and is not specific in the original text within that line. My study Torah has a whole paragraph dedicated to this topic.
Basically God's "day" can be anything from 24 hours to 24 million years.

What I wonder is how the Genesis-literalists get past the fact that chapters 1 & 2 of Genesis have 2 different versions of the creation myth, one in which man is created before the animals, and the other in which man is created after the animals. If you believe that the Bible is a literal account of creation, then these both can't be true.

Ah, but you can only read one of those at a time!

I got an interesting cookie from St. Augustine, that led me to his quote on the literal interpretation of Genesis:
Of course, the cookie quote shows him doing what he was cautioning others not to do:

Unless he was talking about astrologers, as seems likely... "Mathematician" as currently used probably was more of a hobby than a profession at that point.

Actually, that first quote is a more reasonable statement than I would have expected from St. Auggy. I think the last time I read him was back when I was doing a paper on free will vs. determinism. I seem to recall his argument on how free will can exist with an omniscient God was something along the lines of "stop asking so many freaking questions!" Needless to say I didn't read much from him after that.

Science team finds 'lost world'

An international team of scientists says it has found a "lost world" in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of new animal and plant species.
"It's beautiful, untouched, unpopulated forest; there's no evidence of human impact or presence"
Dr Bruce Beehler, Conservation International

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl...0496/img/1.jpg
The Foja Mountains are a hotspot for frogs, says the Conservation International Rapid Assessment Program expedition team (Image: Stephen Richards)

I'm afraid they're going to have to look a lot more tribble-like if you want people to care about them...

Don't worry Griff, by the time the chef finishes with them, they'll look lovely. ;)