You really seem to be reading an awful lot into what I wrote that I didn't write.
You might want to start again at the beginning.
I agree with you that God created us and the rest of the universe. What is so disturbing about the idea that evolution might be the METHOD chosen by God to accomplish his will?
Evolution may, or may not, be how God decided to do it but right now it seems to be the best explanation.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
“What is so disturbing about the idea that evolution might be the METHOD chosen by God to accomplish his will?
Evolution may, or may not, be how God decided to do it but right now it seems to be the best explanation.”
There is no “bee in my bonnet”. I understand your position and there are many who would agree with you.
Call me simple, or fundamental...it is ok.....but there is direct conflict with believing God “created”, but also that he ‘decided to use evolution as his method’ to make it happen. Integral to creation, the Bible says God spoke these things into being. “Let there be light...and there was light” among other things. And ‘man was made from the dust of the ground...on the 6th day’.
Unless you believe each creation day is longer than a 24 hour period, there is absolutely no validity to God using evolution as his method when in fact the Bible says he made man on the 6th day (if indeed it was a 24 hour period)!
This is fundamental. So you and others either believe each of the first 6 days are longer - much longer - than 24 hours for evolution to be included, or you really don’t believe God spoke these things into being to begin with, or you really don’t believe in creation.
What all this looks like to me is people reducing God to the level of THEIR comprehension rather than admitting we cannot comprehend that kind of power?! Why is there a need to have an ‘explanation’ such as evolution when God’s word tells us he spoke it into being - that he created it all?
To say one believes in creation, but also to say evolution explains the history of mankind (and more), immediately indicates one is taking bits and pieces - but not the whole.
So to say ‘God created us and the rest of the universe’, but then to turn right back around and say it is possible that God used evolution really does not fit at all with the 6th day - if you believe it was also a 24 hour period.
I do realize there is forever debate on the time span of each of the creation days. Also, I have this feeling we won’t have this subject at the forefront of our minds on the last day.
A bigger question may be, what are we doing with our faith?