What is "Theistic Evolution", and is this forum hostile to it?

[gbrooks9 (GeorgeB)]

@gbrooks9

but as long as there is a God in real time, responding to humans in real time (human real time anyway), and optionally punctuating NATURAL processes with the occasional SUPER-natural event, we are all safe from a watch-maker an uncaring watchmaker God.

This recent quote (above) led me to this very old conversation (below):

@Michael_Callen

@swamidass

@gbrooks9 Science, in its very nature, cannot control for the variable of God.

This is an extremely important and deep point worth expanding.

Since science does control for variables, what is so important about this point? Is it due to the fact that George sees God’s involvement as continuous? What if one posits (and I don’t really, but some may hold this position or one similar) that God intervened once to create life and once to breathe life into man? Are those variables that could be controlled or no?