In my adjacent thread about whether God could have used evolution to create a diversity of species on Earth, a couple creationists responded in a way that suggested evolution was an inherently atheistic idea.
In a scenario where God did in fact use evolutionary processes as a means to diversify life on Earth, would dismissing that process on the grounds of being an atheistic idea inherently prevent creationists from acknowledging the truth of how God diversified living things?
For starters, in all the discussions I've had regarding evolution and biology, things generally come back to the fact that life does have an appearance of shared ancestry. I've yet to see a comparable explanation for these observed patterns in biology, other than if God didn't use evolution, well, things were created with the appearance thereof. There doesn't seem to be an explanation for why those patterns otherwise exist*.
(* And for the record, simply claiming that God used common parts doesn't do it. Just using common parts wouldn't necessarily yield patterns that suggest hereditary origins and common ancestry. If just using common parts was the answer, we'd more likely expect nature to be full of evolution-defying chimeric organisms. But we don't see that in nature.)
I've also noted that creationists seem at best apathetic if not hostile to the idea of learning about evolution. This is reinforced by various threads I've started in this forum, including a recent one asking creationists which sources they've used to research evolution (over a hundred posts in and no creationists have provided specific sources).
If this apathy and/or hostility is driven by the idea that evolution is an atheistic (or worse, anti-theistic) idea, then I can see why they don't want to learn about the subject. But if God in fact used evolution to diversify life, this creates a catch-22 whereby creationists are inherently dismissing the very means by which God diversified life.
There is also nothing inherently un-Biblical about God using evolution as a means of producing life's diversity. The descriptions of the process of creation in Genesis seems to suggest such a process. Rather than arbitrarily creating every living thing, the descriptions in Genesis involve the Earth and waters bringing forth life. Likewise, God tells the organisms to be reproduce after their kind. This is perfectly in line with biological evolution, since evolution is dependent on differential reproduction and organisms are effectively constrained by their kind; e.g. constrained by their hereditary ancestry.
