I am perpetually stunned, when so many Christians continue to over focus on disciplines, employed in the study of the material world......along with those Christians who demand to be viewed as experts without formal training, simply based on their belief in God.
From a Christian POV:
1. Most Christians are not scientists; so, literalists who run around judging the spiritual condition of their Christian brothers and sisters based on ideas concerning origin/creation are speculating, wasting time, and distracting Christians from their sanctification.
2. I can appreciate the study of the mechanics of creation as it relates to spiritual realities, but in and of itself, it is about as interesting to me as the mechanics of the postal service.....i just hope it continues to work as well as it does. I am certainly not interested in Christianizing the process, nor do I feel threatened when I receive secular mail or speculate on the spiritual condition of the first postmaster general.
3. Often, Christians who are concerned about the theory of evolution, could care less about the study of the mechanics of nature.....instead, they are looking for a political win. It is tribalism rather than Christianity; in essence, they wolves in scientists clothing, pushing politics at the expense of both science and spiritual growth.
From the POV of science
1. Arguing the validity of evolution is a waste of time. Sort of like a marathon runner taking time to argue the validity of tying their shoes rather than spending time training.
2. Questioning an assumption so basic is mind numbing and threatens the very notion that people are capable of knowing anything. Sort of the same affect as calling all news ‘fake news’ - eventually, people well stop believing every source and start accepting tyranny.
3. Incorporating Christian doctrine into scientific theory destroys the concept of science, which is based on the observation of the material world and testing of observed interactions between material objects.
It seems to me that worrying about who gets the credit for science and who gets to decide on the theories behind the mechanics is just a distraction from the Real.......i think it is just another symptom of fundamentalism/literalism’s foothold in modern Christian thought.