The name of the book & author you’re thinking of is:
The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom by Gerald L. Schroeder.
I read the book over Christmas break. The author is a theistic evolutionist. He believes that God guided evolution. He presents some interesting math & interpretations based on Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.
However, squeezing billions of years into the 1st chapter of Genesis introduces major conflicts theologically. In particular with Adam & Eve’s sin. There was no recorded death until they sinned when God provided a garment of skin (Gen 3:21). Theistic evolution says that there’s millions of years of death leading up to Adam & Eve arrival.
I’ve got lots of other issues but I don’t have the time to lay it all out. Oh well...
“There was no recorded death”
are you referring to death of non-human animal life???
are you saying no animal like died on earth until after Adam sinned??
The biggest problem with Theistic evolution [as you describe] in a theological sense is that it renders null and void the special creation of man. If man evolved, then either the not-man he came from would have to have been in God's image [which recursively raises this problem] or man himself does not bear God's image; now, given that all the other creatures of the Earth are not made in God's image [it is only possible to murder man, due to being made in God's image, via the Noahic covenant] it stands to reason that any form of evolution applied to mankind denies that man carries God's image.