Look folks, the days of belief and faith are over.
We now have a solid method of determining realities... even if we don't have all the answers yet. It is the
painstaking collecting of a chain of evidence within the framework of a
scientific 'theorum'. (I prefer the lack of ambiguity with the word theorum).
This rationale of science gives a coherent idea formed from the evidence
available which provides an explanation
which can be transferred to other related areas. When it fails to do so where
it would be expected, the theorem is questioned or the application of it is. If
disproved; the theorem is modified to fit all known facts. Evolution has stood
the test of time and has never significantly failed in its predictability, it
requires no miraculous intervention or divine origin in its support. So the theorum of evolution is a fact and is not in doubt. But the proposition is that God must have got the ball rolling.
So to say “I think God started it and left it to evolve” is by
contrast to scientific evidence; meaningless within the present post mythic
world, post Enlightenment thinking. There is no evidence for it.
It is like saying “I like warm clothing”... it has no consequence, no useful meaning to anyone else.
To say “God started it” is the betrayal of an existential insecurity
within the religious psyche which demands that there must be a spirit controlling
everything. It is the comfort sought from an idealised paternal force
where the absence of which would make life feel insecure.
The assertion that “God must have done it” is a Stone Age
superstition. Wake up people... most of us are living in a new age!
