“Basically, evolutionary theory is successful at predictions.”
Charliehall, evolutionary THEORY is as succesful at predictions as it is unsuccessful. Nobody could PREDICT how things were before recorded history. Scientists can theorize and make assumptions, no matter how intelligent and smart and knowledgeable they are. But that’s where it ends. They do not KNOW what happened. Evolutionists adopted their theory as a scientific” FACT.
Evolutionary theory is ALL THEORY based on assumptions based on the personal ideoligy of the scientists coming to “scientific conclusions” all “supported” merely on “scientific” assumptions.
You are right though that believing in the process of slow evolution into what the world is today does not contradict believing in a Creator, or even in the fact that the world “as we know it” is 5771 years old. Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan writes about it in one of his books. I forgot how exactly he comes to his conclusion, (of course his ideas are all supported from accepted and revered sources, which he brings forth). I hope I find that book again, as I read it when I was a teenager and forgot exactly how he comes to the conclusion that evolution fits with the way the Torah states how old the world is.
Those scientists and people though who beleive that the world was created by itself, will eventually look as foolish as the ancient Egyptians who believed in their gods. For proof of a Creator we don’t need to go further than to acces our common sense. But as I read somewhere, common sense is very uncommon.