I just found this thread and actually haven't read the whole thing. The debates on religion and belief in evolution is personal.

But, I don't think we can think of Superman as being an evolution. He was brought here from outside of the normal evolution, out of his natural habitat where he could have a better possibility of becoming extinct.

I appreciated Rac's information on mutations, but it seems to me this falls into a totally different category. Of course, some species have been transported to areas where they had no natural predators, etc.

It also occured to me watching a show about Space Age furnishings how wrong we were about what the 21st century would look like when we were in the middle of the 20th century (For those of you who can remember that far back laugh )