I really don't understand the loggerheads over the belief in Divine Creation and the Theory of Evolution.
In a way I agree. I makes no difference to me what method God used. However, what we have learned over the last few decades, and the last 15 years in particular, in the fields of microbiology, quantum physics, and astrophysics has just crushed random chance (evolution) as a viable theory. The hard science doesn't support it and the math doesn't support it.
This biologist is just desperately trying to hang on to his "religion". He might as well declare that it is a "fact" that the earth is flat.
The problem was from the beginning that Evolution was used by as a club against religion by the likes of Thomas Huxley.
If you're a theistic evolutionist you're at least a step in the right direction.
However the story of creation lays the foundation for the Gospel. Through sin death came into the world, making salvation necessary. If death is not the wages of sin, the whole Bible is false. That's all.