If God had used interspecies evolution to populate the Earth from a one celled organism He created in His Own Mud Puddle, it would mean He chose to work within material reality's paradigms.
The paradigms that compel that process would be as obvious as gravity. They would be enumerated and demonstrable.
They are not, in any degree that would be compelling, which they must be in order to be paradigms. By virtue of the lack of this ring of truth there is society wide resistance like there is not to all other paradigms of His world.
I applaud the cleverness of this strategy to bring those who believe in a Creator into the fold with those who fear the concept of a Creator.
For, after the faithful buy the notion of cross species evolution as a physical paradigm created by God the next question will be, why is God even necessary, when the process has been declared and agreed to be one where no Creator is necessary. And there, my friends, the sound byte debate can legitimately and publicly declared to be over.
It's called a Trojan horse and it's a famous strategy. Falling for a famous strategy is embarrassing.