How involved was God in evolution?

Welcome to posting on the forum, @Vansdad. It is good to have you here and have your input. We look forward to gettting to know you better as we earn your trust. It is a little difficult to put yourself out there at first, and even now it is a little hard to take criticism, but it is a good exercise in humility when you can trade a wrong impression you had with something true that is true. What a deal!

Good question. And obviously when you read Romans 1:19-20 in light of the rest of Romans, most do not. It takes eyes that see and a willing spirit. In Paul’s day, there were few atheists, no evolutionists, but lots of pagans who attributed creation to their pantheon of gods.
I think we can see God’s work in all creation, evolution or not, biology or astronomy or geology, if we have a willing spirit. It does not require proof of an observable divine intervention to see it. If it does, we are all in trouble, since I know of none. Any nominations for one? That said, I do not rule out that God may well have had to intervene in a few critical instances get us “over the hump” to where we are now, perhaps in consciousness, abiogenesis, etc. and of course is the force behind creation in totality. Those things we look to as chance, I see God’s providence.

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