I loved your article and I'd love your thoughts on my feedback:
Speak to any educated theologian and they will tell you the book of Genesis was written by Moses waaay after the Hebrews had fled Egypt and was written as a piece of poetry than factual account. The Bible itself is an anthology of all sorts of writing styles: songs, poetry, letters, accounts and so on. Popular culture has actually created the 6000 year idea in much the same way it created the idea of Santa from the real-life turkish St. Nicholas. The Bible didn't even exist until the Roman Empire adopted it as the state religion.
If we then consider the idea of God as the creator of the universe then by definition they must exist outside of it, all its laws and also time. This creates a Schrödinger thought effect where, because there is no way to prove or disprove the existence of something outside of corporeal reality, belief and disbelief are both logical assumptions.
If a programmer creates a virtual world full of AI characters then they also create laws and rules for them to follow in the form of code and complex mathematics. If the programmer wanted to be able to generate new constructs without direct intervention within the world they would put in procedural generation algorithms. If those AI constructs scratched beneath the surface of their world they would find their underlying code.
Its not a perfect analogy but now consider God as the programmer and the universe as that world. The programmer sits apart from it but has put in place rules (eg the laws of physics), code that needs processing (DNA?) and procedural generation of new constructs, a process we call evolution. We scratched beneath the surface of our reality and found all sorts of laws and processes that keep it all together.
In other words evolution may not disprove the existence of God (it certainly disproves the popular culture definition of one though!) but instead might just be another process put in place by the programmer to ensure that life always finds a way. A separate discussion for another day but it may be that the universe is teeming with life because of the encoded processes that give rise to it.
