Thank you so very much for confirming that things have not changed on the evolution side of the debate! And yes, ahayes, I'm aware that individuals on either side of the debate have conflicting views with their own side - which is fine, except it "threw me" to see your position evidently embraced by an old-timer, js1138. Anytime a js1138, PatrickHenry or other oldtimer says something new, it gets my attention.
me: ... (and therefore theologically speaking, completely unacceptable to every Abrahamic religion?) you: You lost me. Anyway, the answer to that last part is "no" because the answer to the premise was "no."
It was one of their fiercest arguments to other Christians around here (which would apply the Judaism and Islam as well) - that evolution necessarily requires a belief in abiogenesis and therefore a disbelief in a Creator, i.e. a drift to Deism or Eastern theology. The counter-argument of course was that the theory of evolution does not address the question of abiogenesis v biogenesis.