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I am a Christian evolutionist. Many Christians are evolutionists.
Could you define "a Christian evolutionist"?
That statement raises several questions in my mind such as...If you believe that man was created in the image of G_d then aren't you simply stating that G_d is a monkey since man, in the evolutionary aspect, is purported to have evolved from a monkey/ape?
And...Is that where the expression "monkeying around with G_d" comes from? (that one is more a joke than a real question)
As I queried before..."Isn't that a contradiction?"

That statement raises several questions in my mind such as...If you believe that man was created in the image of G_d then aren't you simply stating that G_d is a monkey since man, in the evolutionary aspect, is purported to have evolved from a monkey/ape? >

We're stating that God is an artist who takes his time. Doesn't it make your personal worth far greater to know that He took 17 billion years to make you out of the stuff of the big bang?

In the immortal words of St. Devo: "God made man and he used the monkey to do it." -- Jocko Homo, from the ARE WE NOT MEN album.

And...Is that where the expression "monkeying around with G_d" comes from? (that one is more a joke than a real question) As I queried before..."Isn't that a contradiction?" >

No. It's a contradiction to be a "literalist fundamentalist" and an evolutionist. Not all Christians are literalist fundamentalists.

Could you define "a Christian evolutionist"?

I don't want to get too deeply into this here. Suffice to say that I am not a biblical inerrantist. Also, the idea that the creation account in Genesis is allegorical is at least as old as St. Augustine.