It has been my experience with those like you have listed that they are the same ones who hold a very loose grip on foundational doctrinal truths of the Bible. Once you are willing to get astray from the literal meaning of the Genesis Account, then all of the other doctinal positions are game for molding and adaptation to the whims of society.
If the 6 day Genesis account is true, then the purpose of the creation of the Earth was a habitat for man. Man is God's central creation according to the Bible. If Evolution is true and the Earth is actually 4.5 billion years old and the product of a first generation star super nova, then man isn't the central creation of God and the rest of the Bible is nonsense. Man would be one of millions of living bi-products that occured via evolution. So to have man as just another bi-product, yet for some reason God take special interest in him and send his son to die for him - sounds like a psychotic creator to me.
Yet even if evolution is the machine that gets us here, it is highly organized in it's movement and is guided by some unseen force. Whatever that force is, for it to take special interest in one very small component of evolution, man, and come down to Earth in the form of man and die a death to redeem him makes no logical sense.
So therefore if evolution is the truth, then logically there is no supreme creator or at least none dumb enough to die a horrible death to redeem something that came about by chance. So why after acknowledging evolution as fact, would you attempt to "Dumb Down God" by saying that the other teachings in the Bible are relevant?
God revealing himself to Man makes no sense. God giving a law to Man makes no sense. God blessing man makes no sense. God taking on the form of man makes no sense. God dying for man is complete absurdity. So what do you have once you accept evolution from the Christian Church prospective. Nothing. And once this plays out and runs it's course with the people, then a world wide ecuminical church that is focused on the benefit of humans instead of the worship of God will take the traditional churches's place - as foretold in the Bible.
The 6 day creation account places the Earth as a specially created habitat, Man as a specially created being in the midst of creation, and the primary purpose of man is to have fellowship with the Creator. Evolution places man at the tail end of a long mutation/adaptation/natural selection train where there is no logical room for a devine Creator to take special interest in.
This message has been edited by Lizard Breath, 11-27-2005 06:35 PM