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This is going to be a touchy collection of facts which can be agreed upon by both a literal interpretation of Genesis and current evolutionary theory. There are far too many extremists on both sides that refuse to admit any non trivial common ground.

Ways Evolution is misunderstood:
-Evolution is not a theory on the origin of life, but on the origin of species or history of life. The arrival of the original cells/ancestors of current species is not tackled by evolution.

-Macro evolution is only the cumulative result of micro evolution. It is not a seperate theory of large evolutionary changes in one shot/generation. It refers to large changes in distant descendants through micro evolution.

-Evolution requires an evolutionary path from any common ancester to all descendants. An evolutionary path must consist of micro evolutionary changes that would not prevent any of the descendants along the path from reproducing.

-Molecular Phylogenies do not confirm morphological phylogenies. For everyone who disagrees with the above statement, go find a research paper for me that disproves it. I've looked hard, and all molecular phylogenetic papers I've found conclude with an internal incongruence, or one with existing morpholgical phylogenies. Molecular biology only agrees with 'big picture' phylogenetic relationships, at any real resolution though the picture becomes very blurred. Molecular biology has only confirmed that similar creatures have more similar DNA, that is quite different from confirming common descent.

Ways creationists are misunderstood:
-Interpreting evidence in our world in 'unscientific' ways is not neccassarily foolish or stupid. Intelligent people can come to conclusions that are neither the simplest explanation nor scientificly unprovable. Sometimes the explanation that best fits the observed evidence can be neither simple, nor unprovable.

-Observing our world with the assumption God created it is no more biased than observation based on the assumption that God did not, or does not exist. Scientific observation is only based on the assumption the world does not behave in a random or miraculous fashion. A belief in creation does not lessen our ability to understand our world.

This will be a collection of thoughts on the current state of development for game engines. Particularly a focus on reusability and long term viability of a generic engine design.