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If you claim to believe in God, yet believe that the universe and its inhabitants, in all their complexity, came to be through the workings of chaos, time and chance, then you're simply being dishonest with yourself.

I believe God set up a universe, where chaos, time, and chance allowed complexity to occur. I suspect there are some ID-generated nudges in evolution, here and there, by God or some other intelligence, but I don't think that's necessarily the case. It's in the creation of the universe as a place capable of generating and supporting intelligence that I see God's hand, more than in the evolution of specifically human intelligence.

I believe you are partly correct. Those powers are His tools. However, there had to be more than "nudges" to set things up in order to explain where we currently are.

Statisticians have calculated the necessary probabilities for life to have evolved to this point, and they don't fit anywhere near the timeframes accepted as the age of the universe. For the diversity and complexity of life which we can readily observe to have evolved in even billions of years is mathematically impossible.

It's in the creation of the universe as a place capable of generating and supporting intelligence that I see God's hand, more than in the evolution of specifically human intelligence.

Well said. Thank you.