Not pointless, Joe.
The difference between Divine Purpose and chance is enormous, and the contrast between confidence in the knowledge that we were lovingly created by the Almighty God, or the hopelessness that results from thinking we descended from slimy algae couldn't be greater.
I submit that many of our country's problems......abortion, despair, meaningless lives..... are direct descendents of a purposefully Godless theory of our origins.
Ah such tiny tiny thinking. What makes you think evolution is chance? Mankind has been domesticating canines for thousands of years, the chiwawa is evolved from the wild wolf was that chance? Of course not.
Also the bible specifically says God created Adam from the dust of the ground, the animals and plants were created in their kind but there's no real specifics there so evolution for plants and animals isn't denied by the bible because it's simply not mentioned. But Man, man was created specifically from the dust of the ground, we were not evolved from algie (as you put it).
Create a universe in a set state? That's like setting a billiard ball down before the pocket and tapping it into the hole. Take an infinite amount of mass and universe and explode it all to form the infinately large and the infinately small and along the way produce us, now you're talking about putting all the balls on the the pool table and breaking the set so the balls disintigrate into a cloud of dust leaving the word "cool" on the table.
God is so much more awesome than even the believers can even begin to understand :)
Not pointless, Joe.
The difference between Divine Purpose and chance is enormous...
And what makes you so sure evolution does not demonstrate Divine Purpose? Isn't it arrogant to believe you understand the mind of God so well that you can't accept that possibility?