Yes, it is an appeal to authority. Otherwise, you wouldn’t pick the pope for your argument.
You pick him because you think that no one would dare say the Pope is going to hell for not believing God and that if anyone on the planet is a Christian, he is.
Insisting on reading evolution into the creation account is reading more into it than it says.
Claiming that God used evolution to create man from lower creatures denies what the Bible and Jesus clearly say otherwise.
How anyone can claim to be a Christian and have faith in God and then go on to deny the truth of what He tells us in His Word is beyond me.
How someone can do the mental gymnastics necessary to reconcile believing God and calling Him a liar at the same time is beyond me, but it just doesn’t fit that someone who trusts Him enough for salvation doesn’t trust Him enough to take Him at His word, even when it doesn’t fit with what other people say.
And the ToE is nothing more than a human construct in an attempt to explain some of what they saw that doesn’t require belief in God. IT is not written in stone. Trying to adjust God’s Word to fit man’s explanations is a precarious position to be in.
If God and His Word are not trustworthy enough to believe when compared to human constructs, how can you consider it trustworthy enough to trust Him for salvation?
If you think I am not “really” a Christian because I accept evolution and/or am going to hell; then reducing that argument to the absurd, the POPE isn't a “real” Christian and is going to hell with me.
I am not appealing to the Popes “authority” to settle a debate point. I am not saying ‘evolution is true because the Pope agrees with it’ or that ‘my interpretation of the Bible is correct because the Pope agrees with it’. THAT would be an actual “appeal to authority”.
And once again your only argument is an ACTUAL appeal to Biblical authority, and your supposed authority in correctly interpreting it.
All you can do is say ‘if you disagree with what I interpret the Bible to say, you are calling God a liar’. Sure, me and the Pope, we think God is a liar.
And once again this is NOT a scientific argument against evolution.