Mike, do you believe in evolution?

Q:  Mike, do you believe in evolution? The message I received on the 20th of March, 2006, would seem to indicate you don't:

Usually the folks who think life is hard, are just plain messin' with the    cursed how's.

Heck, I'd think it was hard, too, if I forgot there was magic, didn't believe in miracles, and thought I evolved from the ocean as an amoeba.

See you on easy street -
The Universe

P.S. Don't get me wrong, I love amoebas.
 

Included in your list of people who find life hard, are those people who believed they evolved from amoebas.  I think there is divinity in all life, that we create our own reality, but Darwin's theory doesn't contradict any of that, to me.  Evolution is the (so far) most logical description of how life forms change in response to external stimulus.  It makes no judgment on the purpose of life, and why we are alive.  My thoughts are that energy changes form over time; it evolves from one state to another, like viruses evolve to survive antibiotics.  I think of this energy as conscious and aware, experiencing each change in evolution as simply another aspect of itself.  Not better or worse, just different.  As water is water - be it steam or liquid or ice - is all still water, so energy - be it wave or particle or seeming solid - is all still energy.  So, in my way of thinking, the energy I am composed of is simply another form of this eternal energy.  Energy is not truly destroyed, it just changes form.

I have no personal objection to the matter composing my physical body being a descendant of a simpler life form, like an amoeba.  Are you of the "Earth is just 5,000 years old, and what appears to be scientific evidence to the contrary is really Satan at work" school of thought?