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You might find that believing that God can create life with the ability to evolve doesn't make someone your enemy.

God can certainly create life with the ability to "evolve." The question you must answer is: "Did He." The second question you have to answer is "Do you believe Him?

His Scriptures tell us that God created organisms to reproduce after their kind (Genesis 1:25). It does not say directly or imply "evolution" starting as one kind eventually becoming another non-kind.

He created them to adapt within their kind to environments in which they were designed to thrive, but one confuses terms if one equates the term "adaptation" with the concept of Darwinian "evolution."

So it's not a question of what God can do, it's all a matter of believing God's account of what he did do.

This is the basic stumbling stone for all evolutionists, whether they are "theistic" or even atheistic.

By the way, I don't necessarily consider you to be my "enemy," only a substantially argumentatively lesser-equipped debating opponent.

FReegards!

If we are going to do a careful reading of scripture, God made man after His image and likeness. It does not say He ushered in a process that led, ultimately, to a creation that, through said process, resulted in a creature after His image and likeness (What kind of God would do such a thing? Which gives Him the greater glory?) The Pre-Fall notion that God implemented a system of evolutionary forces diminishes God and requires a “reading into” His word things that are not directly suggested by it.

The “Post-Fall” scenario is equally confounding. After God created all things...sin entered the world (through the disobedience of His creatures). This brought into effect the “force” (death) that counters God’s intention for His creation (life.) If the biblical principle of sin and sin’s consequence is true, then how can one conclude that God had put into effect a system that, now tainted by the flaw of sin, would result in an ever-improving, ever-evolving creation that exceeds what He originally brought into existence? Once more, God is diminished.

These things are spiritually discerned, as are all things pertaining to life and godliness, and only by faith can they be understood.