Every theory or belief structure about how our world came to be is an attempt by humans to explain and make sense of the universe we perceive. Whether a theory is the product of a myth borne of a superstition six thousand years old, or a religion two thousand years old, or a contemporary scientific theory just seeing the light of publication in a major scientific journal, every hypothesis about how we got here attempts to explain the mysteries of creation.
Humans recognize the magnificent works Creation has wrought and would like nothing better than to know and understand the specifics of Creation. However, the debate over Darwin's Theory Of Evolution and the concept of Natural Selection versus the Genesis account of The Creation should not be on your list of essentials about which you must make soul-searching choices.
When it is time for humans to have a definitive comprehension of God And Creation, we will have it. Does this mean that our scientific and theological serach for knowledge and truth is a wasted effort? Of course not. Human thirst for knowledge is apparent and unambiguously and innate part of our creation.
We search for knowledge and postulate explanations about our world because it is how we were and are created. It is how we have evolved. What we absolutely do not have to do is is participate in divisive, argumentative, political,and religious fits of rage and discord about which explanation is correct or more correct. Whether you base your beliefs about creation on a "theory", a 'myth", a "religious document", or some other "historical argument", likely is of no consequence to Creation.
Suppose Creation commanded a paradox. Suppose both are correct and neither is correct. In the final analysis, what difference does it make? God Is. We are.
The question each human being in God's Creation should want to answer without equivocation is how can we sanely know God and establish an intimate relationship with God so that we may best enjoy the fruits of our terrestrial existence and know comfort in whatever exists for us when we are relieved of our human bodies.
For those who suffer from the Pain Of Mortal Being, there are, of course, many other questions. Among them are, How can I extinguish the fire that burns so deep in my soul? Is a Resoultion Of Being beyond my reach? Is God as elusive as I have found God to be?
Or am I destined to hate, redicule, or envy those who do not suffer my pain or accept my point of view.
In the final analysis, it is not very relevant that so many other people do not feel that God is distant. It is not very relevant that these people show disdain or pity for those who feel that God is elusive and out of perceptual reach. God is elusive if that is your experience with your creator. But you shouldn't feel alone, cursed, deserted, weird, or lost. You are simply part of a very large community of people for whom God is never encountered and God is never experienced.
The ambiguity of your existence and God's apparent elusiveness is the stuff that fuels the Pain Of Mortal Being. That perception of God is much more common than is the religious beliefs of those who declare with haughty arrogance that they have a close personal relationship with God and that it only because you are an unrepentant sinner that you do not "Know God" or "Know Jesus Christ".
You can resolve the ambiguity that confounds you. You can have a Resolution Of Being. You can encounter God. You can find solace in that encounter. You can have an intimate relationship with Creation. You can do all those things if that is your desire and you are willing to receive the rewards and gifts of the civilized moral covenant God has established with the family of humankind.