John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford University.
In his excellent book, Seven Days That Divide the World John Lennox argues that the Genesis account of creation and contemporary science can peacefully co-exist. Here he is, giving a lecture on the same subject:
Well of course the two accounts of creation can co-exist. One only needs to remember that where science asks how and gets into detail and that religion explains why. Two very different questions about the same topic, and it is entirely reasonable to expect that different questions will provide different answers.
What is amazing to me is that the two answers are so incredibly similar. For example science says that our universe began with a “big bang”, a huge release of energy. Religion says our universe began with God pronouncing “let there be light”, light being energy.
Nice analogy.