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Evolution and a divine creator are not exclusive. I believe that many religious people are uneasy with the concept of evolution because it makes them feel smaller and God more remote over vast gulfs of time. But what would infinite God do, would he create a university that constantly had to be molded and shaped or would he create a universe where the very rules written into it naturally led to galaxies, suns, planets, and the rise of life and his children? When scientific study shows us how atoms naturally organize to more complex molecules and crystals, how the different states of matter interact together, it is natural to me that the rise of life is just further down that continuum of matter's self-organization.

And as life arises naturally, would not the immortal soul also naturally come into being as life evolves closer to the creator's image? What is 20 billion years to the Infinite, the Alpha and the Omega? Evolution and scientific discoveries do not diminish God, the fault is in us when our weaknesses lead us to feel small and unimportant in the vastness and age of the universe and the further revelation of God's greatness.

There are many accounts of how our greatest scientist become firm believers in a creator the more their research reveals to them and the more they realize how little they know and how awe-inspiring the universe is.

Ah, no. They are incongruous, incompatible. False premise: “I believe that many religious people are uneasy with the concept of evolution because it makes them feel smaller and God more remote over vast gulfs of time.” Your belief has no historical or scientific justification or basis. This is not an issue that can be addressed in a few paragraphs.

-——Evolution and a divine creator are not exclusive. I believe that many religious people are uneasy with the concept of evolution because it makes them feel smaller and God more remote over vast gulfs of time——

You have to define evolution....certainly micro evolution is evident...

Macro evolution is simply a hoax, there is not one speck of evidence despite decades of searching to find one species to species transformation...

In the beginning....God...