Is Evolution a form of religion

I’m sorry you cannot articulate your “theory of theistic evolution” in a more compelling fashion. All you have done is express your incredulity and that God couldn’t have created the complexities of life over the eons and quadrillions of mutations through [not] ‘random chance’ without ‘poofing’ the major differences in morphologies and metabolisms that we see today.

That, and deny his sovereignty and providence. :angry:

Can God not providentially control storms?

 

And there are these (not exhaustive), or haven’t you read:

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Matthew 10:29–31

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:16–17

I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things. “Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the LORD have created it. Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?
Isaiah 45:7–9

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
Proverbs 16:33

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O Lord, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.
1 Chronicles 29:11

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
Genesis 50:20

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
Proverbs 16:9

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
Matthew 6:26

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
1 Corinthians 10:13

The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.
Proverbs 21:1

For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Philippians 2:13

He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;
Daniel 2:21

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
Proverbs 19:21

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
Ephesians 1:11

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Jeremiah 1:5

He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
Job 12:23

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
James 4:13-15

I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Psalm 119:75

John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.
John 3:27

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:5

I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
Jeremiah 10:23

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
Colossians 1:16

The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.
Proverbs 16:4

A man’s steps are from the Lord; how then can man understand his way?
Proverbs 20:24

For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods. Whatever the Lord pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps. He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
Psalm 135:5-7

And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. [said Joseph, having been enslaved, falsely accused and imprisoned to that end for God’s purposes]
Genesis 45:5

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Romans 11:33

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