The detailed implementation of intelligent design and other creationism alternatives should be taught in the public schools of Kansas. Just hand waving and saying it's too complicated to understand isn't good enough. We need specific theories that can be analyzed and compared. One candidate is that the entire universe was willed into existence ten seconds ago with fossils intact in the earth and our memories completely faked. Another is FSM, as described at the link below:

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

the flying spaghetti monster looks a lot like Cthulhu

Mmm! I guess all roads still lead to Rome!

This painting is based on The Creation of Man (Fragment of the Sistine Chapel ceiling)
1511-12.

I am still waiting for someone to inform me whose hand can be found under Adams buttocks. You need to magnify and home into the dark area beneath the boulder, where an arm and hand seems to be picking acorns from a bowl!

Oaks (and acorns) signify Zeus. Intense symbolism, eh? Somebody is planting oak trees?

Does this help?

Many thanks Rick.

I get the bigger picture now, and can see that it is a bowl of serpent soup being emptied.

I think there may be a lot in your 'oak symbolism' suggestion.

Also, this is the first time I have seen the picture shown flipped about its vertical axis. I presume this one is authentic, showing Adam as right-handed possibly.

I had been flipping it around to show the culprit right side up. Then I uploaded it to my teamster.usc.edu Web site for publication here. Originally from Wikipedia, I think.

I have found an original photo and it should be Adams left hand reacging toward God.

http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Rome/blog-11862.html

I fixed it. Replaced Sistine.jpg with a higher resolution file. Do a refresh and zoom in if you can. It's a cloth-wrapped bundle of green things that he's got hold of.