OR, and here's a better idea, he accepts actual science and also believes in God at the same time! Now how's that for a novel idea, Mister Mindreader?
Hi Warden. I hope you don't mind if I ask a favor that you not refer to me as Mister (it's something Jesus taught). Just call me ETS. Thanks.
As for your comments on science, I think it makes sense that God invented science, and that the most likely reason so many Christians today distrust science is because so many atheists have tried to use science to discredit God. There have been a lot of overreactions on both sides, I think.
I'm inclined to believe that all the various geniuses throughout history were specifically made that way by God because he
wanted us to learn more about just how amazing his creation really is. Some of them used their gifts properly and we learned a great deal about the world around us.
It creates a bemusing paradox for some scientists in that, the more they discover just how complex life and the universe really are, the more they feel there is no need for any intelligence behind that complexity; In other words, the complexity becomes the explanation for the complexity.
A few years ago a new Science series was released called "Cosmos" (I think), narrated by Neil DeGrass Tyson. I watched all of it and it was really good (he's got a really soothing voice, I think). They put a lot of quality into that show, but it also heavily stressed the theme that a belief in God is what barbarians did in the past when they had no other explanation for all the complexity around them.
These people were definitely pushing a godless evolution, very, very strongly. No ambiguity with those guys, which, while I disagree with, I still respect, especially compared to all the waffling I've found here.
Haha, it actually makes me feel like praying for an atheist who's clear on the issues, instead of all this waffling around about the possibilities of God being behind evolution.
If you want to consider the possibility of a creator behind it all, then that's creation, not evolution, though I don't see any problem with considering the idea that God engineered evolution as a self-replocating system. I think it's good to consider the various possibilities even if we disagree on some of them. However, that would still be creation.