God and Evolution - are they unreconcilable?

To be frank, I long ago learned that it is not worth wasting one's time with such people. Their reasoning is that The Bible is absolutely and literally "The Word of God" and therefore nothing can be true that is not recounted somewhere in the Bible. If the Bible, for example, says that God created man from the dust of the earth and a little spittle, that is literally how it happened. They usually also have a very fixed and blinkered idea of what the word "Christian" means and are quite prepared to aver that those who don't believe as they do [in the absolute veracity and literal meaning of The Bible] are 'not proper Christians' (and sometimes simply 'not Christians'). This leads them tacitly to despise those who they don't see as 'Christians' and to judge them (again, usually by implication), yet they cannot see that this is quite clearly NOT what Jesus taught in his life on Earth. I really can't answer your question for him because I cannot see anything about a belief in an ultimate Creator which precludes the acceptance of the fact of Evolution. Oh yes, and that's another thing that most such people get wrong: they claim that because it's termed a 'theory', it is by definition unproven and not a fact. They cannot accept the scientific use of the word 'theory'. Personally, I see the simplicity (and complexity) of DNA as very good evidence for an Intelligence behind creation. It connects all of life on Earth (and possibly anywhere in the Universe, if we ever discover life elsewhere) and proves,to me, that all living things were created by evolution and not as ready-made entties.

I cannot answer the question. Often people will stand on a point that they cannot support and become quite agitated if you challenge them. Personally, I do not see that anything that precludes evolution. In fact, to me there is strong evidence to support evolutionary processes.

We have all some opinion, and everyone has the freedom to think what they want.. I think these articles about DNA could interest some here;

@indexer I think a limited understanding of what the Bible actually is andwhat it’s purpose is may be at the root of his problem.

"The world is but a reflection of my imagination. Whatever I want to see, I can see. But why should I invent patterns of creation, evolution and destruction? I do not need them. The world is in me, the world is myself. I am not afraid of it and have no desire to lock it up in a mental picture." The Indian spiritual guru, Nisargadatta Marahaj, (1897 to 1981) said this. Most religions want to do the same, and they do exactly what he advises not to do. They lock their ideas into a vault, and will let no other combinations from the world open it, even if they can do so, they will say that it was a false opening. God, if he exists, is a God of all things. To remove the theory of Evolution from God is to diminish God, who is all things to all creation. All things can exist then if God exists, but if not, all things must be explained by man in some other way. God argues against none of these ways, as he allows man to think how he must think. Man goes on with or without God, it seems, and he finds his answers, generally through his own thinking too, not through God's thinking. The Christian bible has never answered any of the questions that I wanted religion to answer for me. I have not given up on finding some answers, but I will probably die, before I have found any that really satisfy me.

God and Evolution... A quite an unending debate you will have there... For me, evolution is quite truer than what the bible says but at the end of the day the root of everything is quite deeper...