The fine-tuning of the universe makes more sense if there is a God than if there isn’t. But what about evolution – did man evolve from ape? No, he did not! Gaukroger asks, tongue in cheek, ‘Can any right-thinking person really believe in Adam and Eve? Well, perhaps they can – given recent scientific genetic research which points to the possibility that all humanity may have evolved from a single couple! Indeed, according to some genetics experts, modern-day DNA research could theoretically trace our ancestry back to one man and one woman. ‘Evolution is not a fact! Evolution is [a theory] a description! If we ask the question, ‘Why did the man fall off the roof’ science can draw on its resources to tell us about the mechanics involved – the mass of the man, the velocity of the fall, gravitational pull, and so on. But this is only a description of what happened. Gravity did not make the man fall! To find out the cause we have to ask other questions. Did he slip? Was he pushed? Did he jump? Similarly, evolution is a [theory or] description of the way life may have started, but it cannot explain what made it start and why. Only non-scientific questions can do that. Was it chance? God? Evolution simply cannot say. This means that even if every single piece of current evolutionary theory proved accurate, it would still not rule God out of the picture.’

Stephen Gaukroger, ‘It Makes Sense: The Handbook to Believing’, 2003, Milton Keynes: Scripture Union, p.80-82