Care to give me the third option? Or is ti that you have found a new big word to play with?
God used natural laws to reach the end he wanted. Evolution and God are not incompatible concepts. This is, in fact, the view embraced by most mainstream Christian denominations.
God often used allegories and metaphors to speak to us in the Bible. Objects like the "tree of life" and "tree of knowledge of good and evil" sort of scream out "metaphor", don't they? Either way, the evidence behind an Earth much older than thousands of years, and the evidence supporting vast changes in life over that period, are much too strong to ignore.
I don't feel that natural laws revealed by biology, geology and cosmology have pulled me away from God - if anything, they've given me more awe and reverance for His creative power.