But what would be the purpose of employing a transitional system. Philosophically speaking, the only benefit I can see is for man to understand the causality of nature. But this can be accomplished without the existence of evolution.
Tell, me, what, in your opinion, do you think would be beneficial for both God and man:
1)understanding the causality of nature through evolution
2)understanding the causality of God through creation
I don't understand why the two have to be mutually exclusive.
Ken Miller argues that it facilitates free will.
In order for free will to exist, the created order has to have some independence from God. That is, it must be the case that God does not directly cause everything that happens in the universe. Creatures have to be capable of willing things and causing things on their own, and it is only fitting that they themselves are made through a process that God does not directly control.
Of course, God is the ultimate cause of all things, for he created nature and all its laws, and the universe is not completely independent Him. He sustains it, after all. That is not the same thing, however, as God directly willing and causing all things that happen therein.