[Dimensio]

So, the end result is that I cannot so a person believing both in God and evolution without engaging in a logical disconnect.

Your problem is not in assuming the abilities of God, but in assuming the motives. As you are not a God, you have no means by which to assume that a God would have a specific motive to create a system wherein evolution would or would not occur.

In other words, it is fallacious to assume that a premise is false because a deity would not want it to be true. Such a conclusion assumes absolute knowledge of the mind of the deity, and that is impossible.

[jec41]

Placemarker

[fr_freak]

Your problem is not in assuming the abilities of God, but in assuming the motives. As you are not a God, you have no means by which to assume that a God would have a specific motive to create a system wherein evolution would or would not occur.

Actually, that is pretty much my point - that no one of us could know the motives of God, and therefore, since we accept His ability to make things happen at will, we cannot predict that He would do so according to a set of rules that we believe we can discover and understand. Establishing a theory of evolution is exactly that: an attempt by us to determine the rules by which God abides in His creation of species.