What the heck is "Go Team Dis Gon Be Gud!" and why is choosing this option necessarily somewhere in between. Let's say someone believes in a being that created the big bang. That being would necessarily be "God" or the Creator without necessarily precluding evolution. Both may be fully believed even in the context of most faiths.
A common Christian/Jewish example is that in the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. The Earth, according to the Hebrew/Christian text is already there before the 7 days of creation, it is just void (the term can mean desolate) like say, Mars. It even has the spirit of God hovering over the surface of the water (Gen 1:2) before the traditional 7 days began and this leaves a significant amount of room for billions of years and the Big Bang's occurence. The absolutely allows for not only the entirety of the planet forming over millions of years during the unspecified time between the creation of heavens/earth and the 7 days. One could even say this doesn't preclude a possibility that creatures were living on the earth prior to a cataclysmic event just before God arrived on the scene.
And that's all taking a literal interpretation of things when a basic understanding of Hebrew Poetry that is litered throughout the Hebrew Bible basically demands that metaphors or exaggerations be considered a legitmate possibility. From what I've seen of other texts, this is likewise a possibility. But this one example is how a Christian may easily believe in both fully.
In any event, while I believe that going to any particular religion over another does require an actual step of faith and not logic, I do believe that overall deism may be arrived at intellectually as a possible theory of the universe. Any being of technology advanced enough to create the universe would naturally be a God to us. However, any being that actually exists is not supernatural, but merely natural albeit alien to the universe itself and so perhaps not "natural" where our universe is concerned. Considering how readily humans are making minature virtual universes (video games) all the time that are only getting more and more complex, I'd think it only a matter of time before we start creating environments in which a.i. virtual organic life can begin to take shape. In such a scenario, the developer would rightfully be called god by that life. If we can do it, the question must be posed why there's not a creator above us who maybe didn't create us a virtual environment but something else we can't understand because to understand would require us to think outside our natural universe in a way we're not aware of. Or heck, maybe we are a virtual environment. Some people do believe that, actually. Not many ways to disprove it. You should hear how they tie it into the observer effect on the double slit experiment being caused by forcing our environmnet to allot more processing to the process by measuring it...
In any event, I'd like to see people stop being afraid of science overturning their religion. Any verifiable proof one way or the other would likely be centuries away from us presently even at our current rate of advancement. The question that has to be answered is not if the Big bang happened, it did or something very like it, but where the matter/energy of which the big bang was comprised of came from. It either appeared (magic/supernatural/something from literally nothing) or was created by something that could exist before and outside of our universe (God/god/gods/spaghetti monster). If it was a creator, then is that creator still active or are we forgotten?
