I agree completely with your post #280...I really do not understand why people think that evolution and belief in God cannot coexist within the same person...
I am like you, I strongly belief in God, and also belief in evolution...It does not bother me that some who believe in evolution do not believe in a God...why should it and what difference does it make? What does bother me, is when someone comes along with their brand of Christianity, and tells me that its impossible for me to believe in both evolution and God...and that has happened to me, on a number of occasions...
Belief in God, and belief in evolution can and does coexist..
Where do you think God fits in evolution?
"What does bother me, is when someone comes along with their brand of Christianity, and tells me that its impossible for me to believe in both evolution and God...and that has happened to me, on a number of occasions..."
I have never believed that God controls our lives because he gave us free will.
And if he gave us free will, he must have also given all things free will. Maybe not on the same level as we understand it but maybe to the point that all living things are allowed to make choices, whether by intelligent thinking or by natural selection (as it has been explained to me).
If sublife forms didn't have the ability to adapt to their environment then all species eventually would have to die out.
I don't think God ever meant that to happen.
I'm probably being a bit naive in my explanation, but it seems logical.