The Foundations of the Debate

A God who can create evolution is a truly awesome God.A god who individually makes one thing after another, with each intended to fix the problems of the prior one, is an incompetent bungling fool who deserves no respect,Theistic evolutionists believe in an awesome God.

Nobody has suggested that God needs evolution. Rather, the claim is tha God chose to create evolution.There is nothing awesome about the kind of petty tyrant that YECs take their god to be.

That's an interesting idea.If you are correct, then creationism has chosen its battles very poorly. For knowledge of the world will always be derived from observational evidence, and cannot be held hostage to authority. By challenging science, the creationists have taken on a battle that they cannot win.For cultural knowledge, the situation is different. Authority can be a source of social/cultural knowledge. For authority can set the rules, and the rules influence the direction of the culture. But even here, conservative religion is on the losing side. Gay activists have been gaining support. Pop culture has been more influential than the church, and rapid technological change undermines the traditional resistance to change of conservativism.

Have you forgotten about Martin Luther?