Evolution is a Fairytale: Monday's Musings...

We're having a discussion this week that will focus on the popular debate between creation and evolution. We're having a guest speaker in on Sunday night but I'll still spend some time glancing over relevant books, articles, etc. One thing I'm interested in reviewing myself is whether or not faith and reason are mutually exclusive. Popular opinion seems to hold that it is. But I just found a couple of comments by some guys you might be familiar with:

Albert Einstein said, 'Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.' And C.S. Lewis makes the point that, 'The laws of motion do not set billiard balls moving; they analyse the motion after something else … has provided it.'

James May explores this dichotomy further and writes: "As an accumulated body of knowledge about the physical world, science is a magnificent tool, but as a description of the human condition it is clumsy and inadequate. Isaac Newton himself believed that science revealed the majesty of God’s created order. There may not be any ‘monsters’ in the forest, but it is another question to try to remove God as creator, and to destroy human value, morality and significance. Knowing how a clock works does not tell us the time. We may be able to describe life’s mechanisms, but what does it mean?

It is an error to read the creation story in Genesis through our modern eyes as primarily a scientific account of how the world came into being. It is rather a description of who made it, and why humans have a special place in it. Many Christian scientists therefore see no intrinsic disagreement between the biblical creation narrative and evolution as a possible description of the process God used during creation, though many doubt that evolution has the explanatory scope that is often claimed for it.

The Bible reveals what science is cannot explain: the origin of all matter created out of nothing, the basis of human value and purpose, and the reason human beings make such a mess of the world. Most importantly of all, it reveals the justice and mercy of the loving God who created the whole universe and then revealed himself within it, in the historic person of Jesus Christ."