I agree there would be no point in arguing, but we can grow through the sharing of ideas.
It is of great significance what we believe, since it will define what we do and therefore who we become. While it may appear that we are arguing about shades of green, how we understand the cause of our existence has implications on what we hold to be important and how we treat one another. And, there’s a big difference between whether our being is the product of random happenings and whether it is created by God. There is also a chasm between the idea that God set things in motion to run their course and whether He acts Now, involved in every moment.
The Theory of Evolution conflicts with Genesis in its view that we are animals and that originally all life came to be from the preexisting forces of nature, specifically electrochemical, rather than as a new form of being in itself, that we emerged from a group rather than two first parents, that Eve was not formed, body and soul, from the original Adam. Now to put this all together requires one to really step outside the box of how the world is presented to us by modern society. It does fit, but not with the reductionist pap we are fed.
The appearance is the hardness of wood, the magnet which moves the iron filings, the bursting into flames of a match, the ocean wave that breaks on the shore. The structure that underlies all these diverse phenomena includes those subatomic processes and events (particles is one way to conceive of them) coming together as a new whole of material being in the form of the atom. The relationship that atoms have which one another is described by physics which explains all the above-mentioned seemingly different events.
There is clearly no one agreed to Theory of Evolution, but as science deals with the reproduceable and never one-of events, as is creation, it holds that life originated and flourished in its vastness, variety and distinctness, from random physical events and that it did so in accordance with what is today assumed to be the way the world works. Recall that we once thought, not incorrectly when one gazes at the stars, that they move around the earth. What appears to be random, such as the neural activity going on in my brain, is ordered in accordance with my will, here and now. Similarly, the universe is a symphony of events of different shapes, intensities and durations, brought into existence and maintained by God, who created us to know Him, to become Love. Science doing what it is intended to do, should pay homage to that reality, instead it chases shadows.
