Random process to functionally complex specific

Agreed Kelly. Could not God be the author of evolution and the geological time scale.
Of course, He could, but that would mean that He encoded into all life the ability to replicate after its own kind and others. According to His Word, life after He created it all was told to be fruitful and multiply after their own kind. The other thing about God, do you think time limits Him in any fashion whatsoever? He transcends time; he could create or do multiple things in an instant where we are looking for what came first.

We occasionally put God, others, and many things in a box, limiting how they will or should react. If we understand all of the ends and out, we can predict outcomes with some measure of success in the material world, but our understanding of it is much more limited than we like to think, in my opinion.
Information: The lack of uncertainty, the more possibilities against something, the lower the probability it will happen; therefore, the greater the specific information. A coin flip is 50/50, so the uncertainty is 1/2, and a six-sided die is 1/6.
What is proposed in an undirected evolutionary process is that random chance will, in the end, produce a very specified information-driven process. An impossibility as soon as predictable outcomes are present, we have left the world of random. As long as random outcomes are the driving force, they will remain random, unspecified, and unpredictable.
Only something with a nature that can produce predictability can create anything with specified outcomes; an agent is required for designed outcomes. We need not even concern ourselves with only the biological odds, since information-directing processes drive them; only something capable of directing those things could produce life.
It takes an author to write a book.