I took a biochemistry class. The professor was an evolutionary scientist. I'll always remember what he said. "If you consider the huge amount of energy it takes to change one atom to another, it'll make you believe in the creation theory".A& M is not exactly a bastion of liberal thinking! They got that ex CIA guy, Gates as chancellor now. The last time I saw him he was asking congress for more money to fight the evil soviet empire. He was asking for the money while the Berlin wall was being torn down.
Evolution does not require atomes be changed (evolve through the periodic table). Evolution depends on mutation. The removal or rearrangement of molecules. A quanta of light will do it! Proximity to a flatulent rhino can aslo cause the effect!
Imagination is more important than knowledge