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 God must be a brilliant mathematician; that's as well and a physicist and a chemist (see previous posts on water and the three amigos ( C N and O) 
There is no going back on that because in the last few decades alone , the universe has revealed its absolutely incredible reliance on the correct and most beautiful numbers. ie the ones that make it work .The constants that since the big bang propelled the pieces to create the parts that eventually came to produce us - the creatures that could appreciate the inherent art in it all . Have you ever read Carlyle? 
I'm a practical scientist so I do appreciate the mechanical ( and I love to make things out of wood and steel), but as I have got older and more into this amazing place and its hidden spaces, the more I have wondered on how much better the universe works than how human's work and how much we doll up our meagre mechanistic creations ( but that another matter  for another time ) 

The Creator is very very good at numbers and insists on using the right numbers to get things done. WE know about precision but God knows more  about it and the additional reality of wriggle room ; the reality of resilience - how much plasticity and variation is still there in ALL the numbers  remember the uncertainty principle 
The universe maybe mostly  mechanism ,but not totally so . 
Everyone who ever builds or makes anything knows that if you don't get the right numbers, even the most basic of machines , recipes or whatever .will not work - Infact, nothing in all creation will ever work ,if the numbers aren't right ; even if you left your ingredients  sitting around on a planet for billions of years . 

So what's with this idea of the determinist's that the machine just grows things because of selection of random mutations. god is in the mutations ? Whatever this faith is it is not a very concrete thought for the day and all them self determined days before us . 
No, sorry BUT that business of natural selection is only one mechanism that explains how variation occurs in living systems: how life adapts to changing homes ;how resilience is built into creation.  it doesn't explain the big picture of creation  . 

Evolution and adaption doesn't explain everything , only some things .
If we were really honest and big picture questioning  we would see that the discovery of the reality  of some evolution in nature came along at just the right time to be adapted to a philosophy - to bolster up the stale old but now re growing faith in pure progress in 19 Cent - which was steaming along because of the genuine growth of science and the  positive products of the industrial revelations .
But the wrong process stuffed into an organ is  still is a sore in the living thing and needs to be cast out.
Faith in progress is still a huge  sore today. Despite the catastrophic an inhumane  failure of atheistic revolutions around the world over the last century , thesis and antithesis still produce grinding tyranny as a result of people adopting faith in "The Synthesis" a predictable consequence often of  someone's narrow and mere self centered arguments.(eg  his greed, my need).    

SURE it a choice . You can believe selection of mutations is a good God substitute but you are saying random mutations are everything ; you are believing we have no control over anything.  

God is the one who not only knows how to make numbers work ; he knows exactly how many of each , and more importantly the rate and other equations between the various molecules numbers and particles ( if "particles " is ultimately what we are dealing with when we talk numbers )  .
You can presume, as some do, that there is no God,  but that makes any answer to "who started it" ' who do I thank "or blame " so distant and deterministic that any tweaking , adaption and co-adjustment since the  start at infinity if known ,unreasonable and not worth chasing.  
Yes you can just wonder , and wonder with all the cynics till the cows come home , why nothing ever changes ever and ever since.  Strangely evolutionary determinism has determined that any new numbers are dim lights to  one simple stupid process whose first name is now used where it doesn't necessarily fit. 

Myths and legends based on trying to find the right  numbers

1. The numbers of bulls killed by the Emperors when planning the future ( Emperor Julian )

2.  The overly simple promotion of the mechanics of democracy.
A good democracy is much more than numbers but many dumb post moderns refuse to go further than trust the wisdom and glory that comes from numbers over 51% ( maybe related to simpleminded faith in progress ) 
 Many post moderns make the mistake of thinking  democracy works when you have a majority (eg Timor &Thailand ) . After all, if there no God there has to be a formula --an simple evolved synthesis  so they think that's it 51% is thought by the determinists to have magic powers. ( and they want us to believe they aren't religious) 
 The new religion of automatic  progress means magically good stuff  comes out of the oven complete ; out of history of thesis and antithesis ,. This is despite eall the atrocious blind determinism of these twentieth century experiments' with it show --- Hegel Marx and all the rest ( incl the recent )were wrong -it does not work  Even Robespierre and Napoleon changed their minds about what works. They tried killing people to get the right numbers. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0tafP8HOok 
3.  Add one of you own  

Majorities and clunky mechanisms  that  don't work  One big trouble with the above idea ( worship of a simple technology or a mechanism or named process )  is that the majority can be wrong and the sheep ( or lemmings if you prefer ) can all still go astray . The strong don't always win over the weak ,especially if the weak can see or smell what pong is drawing  the strong .
The numbers of believers or wise people don't matter in a census/ vote - the power of language makes humans have unique potential to solve even the most complex of threats . The odd thing is that the result of informed voting does not depend ,  not on mere facts ( that's a disaster ) but who is wise enough to know which facts to watch.   
A mutation won't always come before an environmental threat kills the animal or plant concerned, so YOU can be behind the response times if you insist ,in your decision to use a very simple theory of how things work . 
 
Democracies that work  Effective democracies work when the leadership trust  that all people are made in the image of God and can make God like decisions  ( pretty amazing mechanism eh !) ,  Its not that leaders always do this but they can . Forget the strong , the aristocracy, the rich , the wise in their own eyes . 
Its informed attitude in action,( language )  not numbers in action that make it work and therefore look for the change of heart in the people ( god in  people ) that makes them insist on good leadership . 

Examples from History 
Abraham that father of many nations, was just a sheep man. yet he won wars for many and gave away the spoils .  
Gideon was told he had too many men to win the battle. God told him the right numbers----much smaller than he thought he needed.   
Jesus had nobody to defend him in court but the world found his case convincing. 

Now to something current 
( you can suggest changes as this needs editing and is for discussion  ) 

Death threats from 

1 Disease 1 
COVID   It is testing for what ? Snowballs in a blizzard ? Presence or absence of what?.
As the causal links from tests up to deaths are questionable , political confidence is even more questionable .
We are called to follow our leader, but please answer our questions ( big problem 18mths since the start) or your credibility over the connections can fail.  

 2  Too much carbon dioxide.  

I won't go into why the Creator let CO2 go sky high for a while ( Carboniferous ages) and then later left us lots of  wriggle room so we could enjoy thrust heat and power.  and plants could grow ( with stomata)  and we go to sleep on a minuscule amount of it present.   
You can worry that its going up ,but I wouldn't and most physicists, plant physiologists  and sound geological earth scientists don't either. 

Please ask questions as this last bit is incomplete but reflects my response  as a scientist with many serious questions on the credibility of public cause agents  in the above areas.  You have a good day .