I think it is true that a believe in a god that intervenes into the process of evolutino is more or less equivalent to just believing in creationism, it would just mean that god is doing it the long way rather than in one go.

However, i think an interesting point is the differentiation between WHY and HOW questions. Science can strictly spoken by its nature never answer questions that start with WHY. For example, the laws of gravity do not explain why things fall, they just allow to predict on which trajectory they will fall. Why is there such thing as gravity and why does it act this way and not in another way remains a religious question – forever, definitely!
The same applies to the mechanism of evolution – we can understand better and better how mutations arise etc, but that just means getting a handle on the laws of nature. You can alwys ask “why are these laws this way and not different?”. And the laws of nature that govern our universe plus the initial conditinos given at some early time (which by the way are also not accessible to science) more or less determine the outcome of evolution (maybe modulo some quantum uncertainty).

On top of that, there are far from being understood, e.g. the appearance of what one usually cals consciesness. A lot of moderate people claim that god only intervenes by giving his creatures “ideas”. Given the poor understannding of the connectino between mind and matter it seems currentlyimpossible to rule out such ideas.

Finally, if god is not to be understood in the framework of space and time, one could argue that he created the world as one fourdimensjional entity, even though that leads to big trouble with the concept of free will.

Interesting topic anyways….