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Evolution and creation are intertwined, since evolution is the maintenance mechanism that allows life to adapt to the constant changes that surround us all.

For men to become embroiled in an argument that one mechanism exists and the other doesn't, is truly missing the point.

Actually, you're missing the point, which is: why would God need to employ two different mechanisms of awareness,

I think this question would necessarily need to be aswered to justify your position.

Clearly, man is unique in God's creation, and his uniqueness is inextricably connected to his awareness and intelligence.

If, somewhere along the line of evolution, God were to imbue a primate, or primates, with a soul, then their awareness and intellignece would necessarily need to be altered profoundly, otherwise, what is the point. Such a condition would be indistinguishable from the evolutionary process which would take us there eventually anyway. There simply would be no further need for God to interfere in a system that would acheive the same results.

That said, we certainly see no evidence of a profound shift in behavior as can be extrapolated from the fossil record, and to suggest that God imbued whatever organism or existent (that evolution suggests is the common ancestor of all animal life an earth) with a soul, would simply be an absurdity.

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"why would God need to employ two different mechanisms of awareness,"

I don't see these mechanisms as being separate. They are equal parts of His overall creation process.

First came Divine Creation, which established the basic format for the variety of species, of which man is definitely a part.

Evolution is the maintenance part, which He has included to allow the varieties to adapt to their surroundings, and in some cases, to establish new varieties of life. Man is also a part of the evolutionary process, as evidenced by his own physical and intellectual progress through time.

We exist in a dynamic, four-dimensional world (at least), with Time the factor that needs to be accommodated. If Created life could not evolve or adapt to changing situations, man could not either.