Disclaimer -- I'm a secular dude.

A hypothetical/argument (it isn't either, exatly) of the following form easily reconciles intelligent design/evolution, and is exceptionally hard to twist to argue against either.

1) Elegance is a virtue.
2) God has all virtues.
3) If god created everything, he would do so elegantly.
4) It is more 'elegant' to design the mechanism of natural selection than to whole hog 'poof' everything into existance.


This basic idea isn't something I see from either creationists OR theists in the hard sciences (of which there are many), and I'm not quite sure why.