Theistic evolution also puts a material-based principle between God and his creation. It makes some impersonal principle the mediator between God and man, and makes humanity the result, not of God speaking in love for fellowship, but of some abstract 'machine' making us; our 'father' cease[s] to be God, and he becomes the one who has pushed us away. Not only does this make the recourse to his being creator hollow, but it makes God's love for us pale, and causes the the basis for the gospel to leak away.There's a bit more to this, I think.
Not only to the TE-ers do this, but they do it with no reason from the Bible. They do it purely to accommodate the materialist program that the universe made it self, life is the result of matter, and mind is mere chemical reactions.
But they do it despite the Bible's lack of basis for their insertion because, I think, they think the Bible has no business talking about origins at all and if it does, they don't think that its important. Its not the Bible's proper domain.
Well, this is just neoplatonic waffle; creation is important in the Bible, because God represents himself to us as God on the basis of him being the creator; Christ's sacrifice and resurrection only makes sense if he is the creator: something the NT is pretty firm about; and God shows us that the personal (God's personhood) is basic to reality; it is the Christian 'first philosophy'. Above all, the creation account shows us the attachment point of this world to God: he made it and did so directly. There is no machine mediating between his love, expressed in his will, and our being.
Put another way, the starting point in making sense of life; of who we are and what is around us, of our relationships and understanding of the world, is our thinking about our origin. To say that the biblical information about origins is somehow incomplete, incorrect or irrelevant is to say that it does not provide the real basis for making sense of these things. And the 'sense' cannot be made both in a 'theological' biblical world that is factually inadequate, a mere 'picture' and in a completely different real world, where the sense we make has to, necessarily, play out. It is only the real world that counts. The line from origins then, to life now, has to be one line, and that line, to have any meaning at all, has to be a line in this world, and be staked at both ends in the same physical reality: that made by God, in love. If one sets aside the information that is in the Bible (Genesis 1, etc.); one is left in the imaginary reconstructions of evolutionary speculation, making a completely different sense of the world and ourselves.
