Abstract
Does the universe, the creation to which God has given being, have the requisite resources, capabilities and potentialities (the "right stuff") to actualize - without need for supplementary acts of form-conferring divine intervention - every kind of physical structure and biological organism that has ever appeared in the universe's formational history? Yes, say proponents of a fully-gifted creation perspective. No, say advocates of Intelligent Design and other forms of episodic creationism. The relative merits of these two views, along with the manner in which proponents argue their cases, are the focus of concern in this overview.