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Imagine alien beings landed on the earth and came across a game board for Monopoly in mid-play. They would observe the pieces and note that they fall into a non-random pattern. Now suppose they wanted to discover the "rules" that describe how the pieces landed in those positions. They could either say that a) some intelligent force just put them in those positions, b) that they randomly fell into those positions.
Current debate over creationism, intelligent design, and evolution seems to take either of those two sides. However, there is a third argument - BioLogos. This argument claims that there is some intelligent force that created the rules to the game, and then some active forces that played the game according to the rules.
In the case of evolution, one way to reconcile science and faith is that God created the rules to the game and natural forces acted them out. Thus, evolution and God may coexist.
This is not true. While Christians believe the Bible is infallible, not all Christians believe all text in the Bible is meant to be taken literally. Evolutionary theory was not around in St. Augustine's time, and yet St. Augustine felt no threat from science discovery natural forces in the world that would unveil God's mechanisms. Since God is outside of space and time, there is no reason why God could not have set the universe in motion and yet planned the outcome simultaneously.
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