What controls or directs this shuffling to instantly produce a viable new species? With natural selection acting on mutations over time, there is a logical reason why adaptations take place, and it’s supported with observational evidence. This not to deny that chromosomal mutations and changes do not occur or have a role in evolution, but how are sudden, massive chromosomal changes of the sort you and Davison talk about (“hopeful monsters”) going to be the main driver of evolution, especially without natural selection? Even if you believe these changes were all “frontloaded” during the original divine creation there has to be some mechanism to trigger them when needed for a changing environment, and to select and pass them along, so why discount the role of natural selection, even in your own model? Jeanson and others havesometimes cited natural selection is a factor or even major one, even tho others at AIG say virtually the opposite. Are you afraid that if you gave even a little credit to natural selection, it would make it harder to explain why there are any limits to change? But that seems almost moot, since you’ve already implied that Geneis kinds can be as broad as orders or classes.