'you have to be created before you can evolve'
created? like..some all powerful dude who lives in the clouds waved a magic wand and *poof* we have a paramecium? Nah....that just isn't believable.
To comprehend evolution...you have to think big. Like 2 billion years big. Homo-erectus, or humans as we know them have only existed on earth for 80,000 years (or if you read the bible...7000 years). That is a very MINUT spec in time. That's like giving a millionaire a penny. It took 1,920,000 years for us to develop as such. If you look back 3.5 million years at at 'lucy' (she was an australapithicus afarensis), she is considered to be the oldest, nearly intact, upright walking human ancestor ever discovered. To go from this 'walking ape' to a walking human took 3420000 million years.
See the problem that people have is that they can't look at a single celled organism like a paramecium and don't see anything at all that could make us related. But, when you think about it, humans are made up of billions of cells that are constructed in nearly the same fashion. Like cells in all other animal life, we have a cell membrane (semi permiable), nucleus, mitocondria etc. Food and water is converted to energy the same way by nearly all animals in the animal kingdom. All plants also have the same way of converting energy (exception of decomposers). I also just can't believe that if everything evolved seperatly, that it's a coincedence that everything has a dna signature with the same double helix construction, made up of adenine and guanine combinations thiamine and cytosine combinations.
I find it funny that bible thumpers have a huge problem with thinking they are related to apes...when in actuality, we're related to everything from apes to the lowly paramecium.
Now...back to 'what created us'. I believe that given the nessesary means for life (water, minerals) it's not impossible that over, mmmm, lets say 500 million years, something will grow.