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1 Cor 1:

26Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29so that no one may boast before him. 30It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.

I have no issues with your response, nor with ToE. I have issues with ToE that erode the integrity and veracity of God's Word (specifically the first few chapters of Genesis), and by extension with ToE's fundamental explaination for the origin of Man.

AFAIK, ToE does not address the origins of everything per se, merely the species that we see presently in comparison to the fossil evidence, and an enormous amount of geological and genetic evidence to make one's head swoon. AFATG, scientists swelled (& swooned) heads can go far to detract from absolute Truth that can not be known empirically (as it is spiritual in nature and can not be intellectually discerned).

I'll take that and the account in Genesis, the Curse (along with the Gen 3:24), and be along on my way.

I'm convinced that one is absolutly True, while the other is merely conditionally so. The two are not mutually exclusive except where the latter impinges on the veracity and integrity of the former.

I'll tell you this: if you want to argue against the empirical entirely from the spiritual end of the stick, you're barking up the wrong mirage. For in fact that's all that science actually is. Does not the Word say that only the Word itself is unchanging? Therefor, science can not be of God (even so it attempts to explains how God's creation functions/operates). The Word is silent about gravity, infectious disease, photons, etc., et ali. One interesting thing it does say is that by Christ all things consist. And it says that Christ wsa fundamental in creation. And science still needs to explain the "strong force" (in which all things consist). Why don't atoms fly apart?

But I digress and I'm no longer ranting (nor raving about ToE), but something else entirely.