Is not Evolution an attempt to explain how God works? I never understood why the two concepts are mutually exclusive.
It is crucial to point out here that Darwinian Evolution – even conceding its truth for arguments sake – is irrelevant to our question. Darwinian Evolution cannot take place without a living, DNA-based self-replicating organism already in place. Darwinian Evolution and Natural Selection are only operative from that point forward. Evolutionary theory does not even pretend to explain how the first living, DNA-based organisms originated.
Evolution is an attempt to eliminate God from creation, to discredit that WE are Created in His image.