Evolution or Creation

Well...yes it does have something to do with the question.It has been pointed out that you cannot choose to believe. You even state that you didn't choose your belief. You already believed that God sent His Son to die for you. You chose to accept the gift that you already believed was offered.How is your choice to do something within your belief system result in the conclusion that everyone chooses their beliefs?Your question from the OP is framed by the belief that you hold. You believe concluding that the Theory of Evolution is true based on the evidence, requires you to renounce your God. Hence the either/or question.It's like saying that we must choose between serving a steak with squash or liver with a baked potato. Since we know that there can be different food combinations than these, why would we say to choose either one?The only thing anyone can do is try to clarify the parameters of the question by asking why you think that those are the only two choices ("evolution and athiesm" or "creation and theism")?

Insults aside, that question is not really related to answering the OP, is it?However, Archer's interaction with ICANT, clarifying the belief choice or nonchoice, helps define that question more clearly.To further understand the OP question, I think we should explore ICANT's reasons for placing such a limited choice in front of himself.For ICANT: What are your reasons for stating that concluding the Theory of Evolution is true requires you to be an athiest?

How God did it could be that He formed the first single celled life form. God could have just as easily made the physical laws of the universe so that life had to form and then evolve. The soul could have been imparted to our species when we evolved enough to need the concept of morality.The why(purpose) of our existance is not related to the method that produced our existance. Even with evolution being a fact, the why of our existance doesn't change from that stated in the Bible....to bring glory to God.Which would you admire more, a person who builds a car or a person who designs a system to build lots of cars. Frankly, I think God is more glorified by the system He built to produce these myriad life forms that continue after billions of years. But that's just me.A little nit. In message 109 you state that Genesis says all life came from the dust of the ground. I believe you forgot Genesis 1:20 and 21:

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20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

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21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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Looks like the birds (and bats?) and fish came from the water.

So, if one thing in the Bible turns out to be untrue then the whole Bible is untrue?I guess you better become an athiest or at least move to a faith not based upon the Old Testament because:

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Leviticus 11:6
The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you.

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Deuteronomy 14:7
However, of those that chew the cud or that have a split hoof completely divided you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the coney. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a split hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you.

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Neither rabbits nor coneys chew cud.That is, assuming that one wrong fact undoes all truth in a manuscript. However, if you accept the truth of scripture despite this minor discrepancy(among others), why must the problems of the creation story get in the way of belief in the power of Christ?

Were we supposed to critique your entire OP where you twisted around the scriptures because you thought somehow the scriptures got mixed up? So we have a teleporting man existing before the earth was void? Forgive me for thinking that you took the Bible literally when you said that if you couldn't believe Genesis, you couldn't believe rest of the Bible. Obviously, you don't believe Genesis as it was written so you must not believe the rest of the Bible as written. How do you know that man hasn't added the entire creation story? No conflict, except for that little water-existing-before-stars thing...oh, and that minor night-and-day-separation-before-the-sun-was-created thing. Yep...looks like the description of the creation of the universe that we see in Genesis closely matches the current theories from modern cosmology. {end sarcasm}Give me a break! The Genesis account isn't any closer to "Science" before the first single cell than it is after. Even your reordering of the events does not make the two mesh any better.