Karl Giberson and unguided evolution

I have come to admire Karl Giberson as someone who robustly integrates his Christian Faith and his embrace of scientific understanding. As a leading thinker, co-founder of BioLogos, book writer, regular correspondent at the Huffington Post religion pages, he is clearly a shaker and mover in this area of thought.

I recently listened to a debate involving Karl:

http://www.faithandevolution.org/debates/can-a-christian-be-a-darwinist.php

In listening to this, I find I cannot embrace some of what Karl is saying. While I am certainly a Christian in the middle of the historical orthodox (small o) faith, and while I hold a very very high view of the Holy Bible as inspired scripture, inerrant (theologically) in it's autographs, and while I embrace science, especially biology and the wonderful advances in genetics and the implications of the human genome project... I have to say that I fully believe that God guided and indeed guides creation. I do not believe that God did/does not guide creation. Dr. Giberson seems to suggest an absent watchmaker approach - perhaps more theistic than specifically Christian, in which God sets creation in motions and then sits back to see what will happen. He suggests that God awaited to see which species would attain sentient, conscious awareness and that any such life form would enjoy a relationship with the creator. I do believe that God created actively (which might have involved evolution), and did not use evolution passively.

That said, it is entirely possible that God, on other planets spinning around other suns in our, or other, galaxies has created other races of persons and if so I would have no surprise if we find that Christ went there and died for their sins also. Indeed it would be entirely consistent with the self-revealed character of God we find in The Bible.

An ancient earth; micro evolution; common ancestry? I have no problem with that.

No historical Fall? I have a problem with that. I do not believe that God created a system that intrinsically needed death and suffering in order to exist. I see The Fall as having corrupted creation at the physical level as well as at the spiritual. 

I am grateful for this ongoing dialog. There is much work to do to continually understand the context of the timeless truth of the gospel within which our scientific discoveries sit.