The result is Christians’ attempt to combine the two contradictory worldviews, producing theistic evolution. Richard Dawkins famously dismissed theistic evolution as a “superfluous attempt” to “smuggle God in by the back door.” Naturalistic Theistic Evolution: God allows natural laws to run their course, hoping His end goal will result. Supernaturalistic Theistic Evolution: God supernaturally augments the evolutionary process only at crucial evolutionary junctions (aka “Progressive Creationism”). Judging by the fossil record, the theistic evolution progression leading to humans would involve six steps.