Christianity and Evolution are Incompatible

Firstly I would like to point out that PRO does not seem to have any quarrel with my claims that:1) "one is not bound to the belief that God specially created things in say six literal 24-hour days"2) "Nor is one bound to the belief that God specially created things over a long period of time"3) "a Christian is perfectly within his/her rational rights to believe that God endowed nature with the ability to bring about the vast array of life we see today". PRO even seems to agree with my contention that evolution is not necessarily "random" or an "accident" as PRO does not respond or disagree when I said "Evolution being the way in which our physical existence came about no more rids us of meaning and purpose than knowing that there is a physical process that is involved and is necessary prior or our birth". The Big Bang - Not Evolution but I'll Adress it AnywayPRO begins his second set of arguments by stating that the Bible doesn't actually disagree with evolution completely in that the Bible is from God, however it wasn't intended to explain how He created, rather it only focuses on what He did. I agree with PRO on this point, as Galileo once said "The Bible tells us how to go to Heaven, not how the heavens go. " PRO concedes that a natural process like the Big Bang "does not contradict Genesis 1:1". I will somewhat ignore this point because the Big Bang has very little to do with the theory of evolution. I will simply say PRO and I agree on this point. At this point, PRO then asks the question "WHO STARTED THE COSMIC EXPLOSION" and points out that scientists don't put God into the equation. I really don't need to answer this question because it has nothing to do with the theory of evolution but I will mention that not all scientists leave God out of the equation. The Big Bang theory only states that the universe expanded from a very high density and high temperature state known as a singularity. [1] The Big Bang theory nor science can tell us what was the initial cause of that explosion. Any scientist who says it must have been an "un-directed event" as you say they do is not saying that because science tell them so, but rather that is their philosophical or theological inclination. To support my conclusion, one only has to mention Georges Lemaître, a Belgian priest, who provided the first detailed mathematical arguments for cosmic expansion, which today we call the "big bang. " [2] I agree with George Lemaître on this one, there is nothing contradictory about a singularity in which the whole Universe begun and believing there is a God behind it all. Evolution - Guided/Undirected, Micro/Macro, God Created KindsSo ironically, while PRO starts off my saying evolution doesn't completely disagree with the Bible because God could have used whatever method He likes to create, PRO seems to contradict himself by saying "well He couldn't have done it this way" by which PRO states the reasoning for it because it was a "direct action by God". All one has to ask is did God create you? From our conception to our pre-birth fetal stages, until we are finally born, there is a natural process that takes place in our creation. Does this mean God didn't create us or do we have a more robust view of what it means to be created by God? I think we have a more robust view, we believe God uses nature to bring about His will. As Christians, God is the master of nature and we know that God has endowed nature with many freedoms and abilities to produce things - including us! I think we can think about evolution in the same way, God has used natural processes to bring about our existence. There is nothing contradictory about this and one can easily believe that God has guided or directed that process, even though like the development of every human being in a mother's womb, it appears to us to be undirected and unguided specifically by God. PRO then makes a distinction between microevolution and macroevolution. He points out that the Bible doesn't agree with the teaching of macroevolution and gives the reasoning for thinking so because "God created all things according to its kind". Ironically, PRO neglects to quote any of the verses themselves which actually state "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind. .. " (Genesis 24). Even if we take this in its most literal sense, one seems to be led to the conclusion that God used the natural processes of Earth to bring about the living creatures of each kind. In other words, not only does is it not contradictory to the text to say that some process like evolution could have produced the animals, instead it seems that the Bible supports this notion. Therefore, I disagree with PRO and conclude that macroevolution is not in disagreement with the language of the Bible. As Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers reflects on this verse Gen 24, he also concludes "However produced, we believe that the sole active power was the creative will of God, but of His modus operandi we know nothing. " [4]PRO tries to make a rather desperate attempt to show that macroevolution never even happened because of one single example that Finches changed beak, but then changed back to the beaks they had before. This debate is not about the truth of evolutionary theory, but rather about the compatibility of it with Christianity, therefore I do not need to reply to this objection. However, I will refer PRO to the mountains of evidence showing that the speciation (diverging of a species into two new species) has in fact happened and many examples can be found here: . http://www.talkorigins.org..., the fossil record shows a myriad of transitional fossils which can be found here: . http://www.talkorigins.org... is strong evidence that plants and animals of different species have evolved into new ones, some of which we still see today. Lastly, PRO concludes that evolution and the Bible are not in harmony because the Bible says "God created everything". But as I clearly stated before, God is the master of nature, He controls it, He uses it to bring about His will. In no way does the claim that "God created everything" contradict with the notion that God used evolution to create the vast array of species on this earth. On this point I think PRO is wrong and his/her views are philosophically inadequate. Of course God doesn't actually say He used "one single organism that multiply to create all kinds of species" because even as PRO admits "Jehovah was not focus[ed] on explaining how he did what he did. " It seems that PRO is being inconsistent here. Conclusion:Overall, it seems that PRO consistently tries to argue that God said that He did things a certain way, but admits that Genesis is only trying to tell us what God did rather than how He did it. PRO is being inconsistent here and I've further showed that even if we take the language in Genesis describing how God said "let the earth bring forth" literally, it appears that a natural process (including something like evolution) is completely compatible. I think it should seem obvious that PRO has not been able to defend the claim that the biological theory of evolution and Christianity are incompatible. SOURCES:1) . https://en.wikipedia.org...2) . https://www.edge.org...3) . https://en.wikipedia.org...4) . http://biblehub.com...