no, because as a christian I know that God gave a literal account of His creation..........he created everythin g on this earth with maturity - thus Adam and Eve were not children but in their prime..Yeah!!!!!!!! The trees were mature and producing fruit and so were all the animals. To say God chose to evolve man over , what's the latest, billions of years, then I would also have to eliminate most of Genesis and original sin.(Not to mention the NT citations of Adam and Eve and the Noah and the Universal Flood) I know the answer to what came first - the chicken or the egg? The chicken.
No, true science is not at War with God as God gave us order and the ability to study it. We also have a big-time fallen angel, Satan, who likes to deceive us...Theistic evolution is an invention to accomodate God to what people thought was proven science. Darwin even knew he had lost his case before he died and all the evolutionary scientists and philosophers simply continue to deny all the design that is self-evident . The Lord himself proclaimed this........and the more that is studied and discovered in astronomy, physics, micro-biology proclaim it true.
And how exactly do you know it is supposed to be taken strictly literally?