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There's actually a long standing tradition in the church--from the time of Augustine--that the "Days" in Genesis weren't literal days. And if you follow the Biblical account of Genesis 1, it does resemble, perfectly, the order Evolution would have occurred. Just saying... you don't have to stop believing in God because of evolution. That's a cop out argument, and is weak sauce. It just means you didn't want to believe in the first place.

Oh boy... Greeks used to speculate on Evolution. It's a concept as far back as 500 bc, in Pre-Ionian Philosophy.

But, I mean, the idea that the universe is self sufficient is an idea even older than that. Just about every known era of philosophy in history, dealt with it at some level. I do believe, philosophers like Aristotle and Plato had refuted the idea of the Universe's self Autonomy a long time ago. As did Aquinas and Augustine. As did Pythagoras, even before Aristotle or Plato. Pythagoras saw God in the figures of Geometry, that there was a coherent sense in the universe, that could only be sufficed by a designer. Like it will blow your mind, but Set Theory and Geometry are perfectly aligned. The same logic which defines sets, can be defined in length, width and breadth in Geometry. That's some pretty interesting stuff, there... that it can happen like that. It's never been refuted, and can't be. You can even expand that concept to Chemistry, Physics and just about everything that can be described. The sense that the same logic can be used to describe anything, shows a design to the universe. Like, the principles of Addition, Subtraction, Division and Multiplication can be used to describe all that exists, if ordered in the right manner. That's what blows my mind. The Rational. And then the empirical is the number. The rational exists through the numbers and how they relate to one another. Reason is like a predicate, and empiricism like a subject or object. I digress.