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I believe in divine Intervention. God intervened to create a Universe out of nothing and establish the biological, chemical and physical laws which resulted in the world around us, us, and all life.

Then you are dismissing an important part of the theory of Evolution. The theory of evolution contends that it is the results of random events and mutations. I would say that you don't believe in evolution if you believe in divine intervention, and I know that are biologists who would agree with that assessment. Divine intervention has no role in the theory of evolution.

The idea that man is the end result of a gradual evolutionary process is well grounded in science. The sum total of these events may APPEAR to be a random one.

However, when a biologist states the random selection contradicts the possibility of Divine Creation, he/she is straying from the field of biology and provable science into the realm of Theology, a field best left to Theologians.

I know there are atheists out there in the biological field and they rejoice in this interpretation.

HOWEVER, if someone believes in an all-powerful, all-knowing Creator-God (a matter of faith which cannot be disproved by Science) and that person believes that God was responsible for creating the evolutionary laws which produced man (again, a matter of faith which cannot be disproved by science), it is not possible for that individual to believe that man was a truly random product.

The facts of evolution are there and beyond dispute among biologists. They represent the HOW. They leave unanswered the WHY - and as a Christian, I believe I know the answer to that question. Random theory still leaves unanswered the WHY.