Welcome home.What you propose is actually pretty well accepted in much of Christianity. As mentioned, it would be one of the flavors of Theistic Evolution. Many branches of Christianity have no problems what so ever with Evolution and in fact, Christians have been very active in the fight against teaching Creationism and Intelligent Design.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

The problem with thinking that God created evolution comes up when we make the mistake of believing that some particular critter, man as an example, is a desired outcome.If we set as an a priori condition that God created evolution then the evidence says that no particular critter was a desired outcome, rather the desired outcome was simply life continuing. Based on the evidence available to us, to think that humans are something special, some specific desired outcome, either indicates severe limits on the God (if humans were the desired outcome why spend billions of years on prototypes) or a hubris much like the Bandar-Log.

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Road-Song of the Bandar-Log

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Here we go in a flung festoon,
Half-way up to the jealous moon!
Don't you envy our pranceful bands?
Don't you wish you had extra hands?
Wouldn't you like if your tails were--so--
Curved in the shape of a Cupid's bow?
Now you're angry, but--never mind,
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!

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Here we sit in a branchy row,
Thinking of beautiful things we know;
Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do,
All complete, in a minute or two--
Something noble and wise and good,
Done by merely wishing we could.
We've forgotten, but--never mind,
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!

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All the talk we ever have heard
Uttered by bat or beast or bird--
Hide or fin or scale or feather--
Jabber it quickly and all together!
Excellent! Wonderful! Once again!

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Now we are talking just like men!
Let's pretend we are ... never mind,
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
This is the way of the Monkey-kind.

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Then join our leaping lines that scumfish through the pines,
That rocket by where, light and high, the wild grape swings.
By the rubbish in our wake, and the noble noise we make,
Be sure, be sure, we're going to do some splendid things!

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

I don't know. If you read what I wrote I specifically said "then the evidence says that no particular critter was a desired outcome..." and you even quoted that.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

What uneven pattern?

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

Did you read all of that?Several issues.First, we are finding more and more samples of pre-Cambrian life and as we find more, the evidence shows that the transition took place over vastly longer periods of time, that there really was not an explosion at all.Second, there are limited areas where we have access today to Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian surfaces.Third, as we move further back in time we are dealing with smaller and smaller critters and ones that left us few fossils. It does appear though from the most recent evidence bilateral critters evolved well before the Cambrian.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

It is certain that the Gods and gods described in many religious texts evolve over time. This is particularly true in the three Judaic faiths.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

Only if sentient beings were a design milestone or objective.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

If a design produces something other than what the designer envisioned then it is a failed design. The product might be a success but the design was a failure.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

It is irrelevant what the designer envisioned.If the design objective was sentient life then the designer is either very limited or inept. That is based on observation, the number of failures as a percentage of successes.If the designer did not envision sentient life yet sentient life was produced, then the design failed.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

And what evidence do you have to support that assertion?

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

Why not?There are many supernatural critters that exhibit all of those traits, immature, inexperienced, unable to design as well as peckish, mean, vindictive, cruel, incompetent.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

Sure, the God in Genes 2&3 is afraid, unsure, immature and learning on the job. The god in Genesis 18 is not all knowing and has to have his morality corrected by a human. Coyote and Loki are just tricksters, the god is Job is just plain cruel and the Satan character in the story is totally amoral, the god character in Exodus is just plain immoral, even changing the Pharaoh's mind just to show he can; the Greek Gods are vain and jealous; Leprechauns are just plain mischievous.Need more examples?

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

Sheesh. That is what Genesis 18 is all about and the important lesson to be learned from Genesis 3. Not only can we judge supernatural beings we are charged to do so.

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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!