Most Christians aren't like what I described at all, just the right-wing evangelical ones who are holding too much sway over our country. And I for one said right at the beginning that evolution has nothing to do with the magic of it all; it's a totally amoral process. Common sense would say that we wouldn't be here in the first place, so it means nothing to say that you could predict any of this (paradoxes about having to be here to predict it aside).

As to the famous "no inter-species evolution" argument, well, it's groundless. The odds that we didn't diverge from apes (about 7 million years ago) are extremely small, considering how similar our genetics are.

Again, I see the force (or forces) you're talking about as an integral part of it all, not something outside it or driving it.