Theistic Evolution; for those who believe God used Evolution?

What do you mean - God quit working. The Bible says He rested, not stopped!

So you're trying to make a case for a narrow, literal interpretation of the creation story. Does the Bible not say that a thousand years is as a day to God? Did Jesus not speak in parables to allow for better understanding of the important aspects of the message? In the Christian view, isn't it better to believe that God had a hand in creating the world as scientific theories prove as opposed to believing God had nothing to do with it at all?

It is notable that GOD'S OWN SON VIEWED THE GENESIS ACCOUNT TO BE TRUE HISTORY: Jesus said, “Did you not read, that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh’? So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has yoked together let no man put apart.”—Matthew 19:4-6

If Jesus believed the first marriage to be a fictional story, would he have made reference to it to support his teaching on the sanctity of marriage? No. (John 17:17)

Also, Jesus’ disciples believed the Genesis account of creation. For example, Luke’s Gospel account traces Jesus’ genealogy all the way back to Adam. (Luke 3:23-38) If Adam were a fictional character, at what point would this genealogical list have turned from fact to myth? If the rootstock of this family tree were mythological, how firm would that have made Jesus’ claim that he was the Messiah, born in the line of David? (Matthew 1:1) The Gospel writer Luke said that he had “traced all things from the start with accuracy.” Clearly, he believed the creation account in Genesis.—Luke 1:3.

To undermine belief in the creation account in Genesis is to undermine the very foundations of the Christian faith. Evolutionary theory and the teachings of Christ are incompatible.

Who or what is man that we can understand the mind of God?

Who can say how He would have done something? After all He is God. He was before ans He was after. His mind doesn't work as ours. The smarest man on the planet at this moment has an IQ of 195 A.E. only had one of 150 . And God? The person who made everything we see? Who knows what or how He said I will make things. Sure I have my belief as the Word states but yeah who was there when it went down? Besides God? Its a faith thing. Not a science thing. Agree or disagree it all comes down too FAITH!!!

You chose a philosophical arguement. A philosopher basically railing against natural selection which would select against the so called ideal society. Showed Monods ignorance of the basic fundamentals of evolution. With an ideal society--there would be no impetus to evolve as a society or as individuals in that society. A funtional niche found that the society is ideally adapted for--evolution would dictate against change. In terms of society if there were an agressive society out there that attacked the ideal society--then the ideal society was not ideal--else it would not have been attacked. Attacks would modify the static state of the society--causing societal evolution to meet the change. Societies evolve rapidly to meet changing conditions--changes in the members of society would be expect to take on the order of millions of years to speciate. So his whole arguement was false and baseless. As far as god using evolution. If I were to believe in a deity, I'd hope the deity used evolution. Picking up a racked set of pool balls with your hands and putting them in the pockets gets the balls in the pockets. A master pool player who knows where the balls will go after he hits the racked set of balls--now there is some elegance in putting the balls in the same pockets there.

And why wouldn't he wait millions of years or billions of years--according to your own beliefs he exists outside of time--he existed before time--therefore time would be meaningless to him whether it was a second or millions of years. YOur whole arguement falls to dust. Maybe if your right your deity will make a man out of the dust of your arguement lol.

So, presumably this is the same God who kicked His creations out of paradise for not following rules (although they specifically did not have knowledge of wrong and right) and eating from a tree He put in the garden, without a guard.

Then, the only way He could redeem this horrific sin was to send His only son to Earth and allow him to be brutally tortured by Roman soldiers.

And you can claim that evolution is too cruel for this God to utilize as a method of creating the diversity of life on Earth?

I don't think you know your God as well as you think you do.

I don't believe in God, but really, I don't see that as a good argument. First of all, someone is instituting their own value judgement by saying natural selection is cruel. Second, even is something is cruel, that does not necessarily mean that God couldn't have done it. The God described in the Bible did plenty of cruel things. He destroyed nearly all living creatures except for two of each in the great flood, for example. He destroyed Sodom and Gomorah, including innocent children, because of the transgressions of adults.

What could be more cruel than that.

Gravity is far more cruel than evolution. People fall and break bones every day. Some even die. Why would you think that just because you find that something is cruel that it must not happen. We don't all live in nice make-believe worlds you know.

Of course I don't see any reason to believe in gods in the first place.

Wow, ignorance must be bliss! I don't presume to understand the mind of God.

Does God follow our calendars and clocks? Does he get up at 6:00 in the morning, have coffee? Does he go to bed at 11:00?

Well, the Bible does not say evolution occurs, but instead it says '.....according to thier kind......'. So, if you believe the Bible then you should not believe evolution. However, the question is, what does the world, that we can see here, tells us about the origin of life?