The scientific evidence supporting evolution is overwhelming and logically consistent. The men who wrote the bible may have been inspired by God, but had no understanding of science or the scientific method and attempted to answer the mystery of the origins of life. We should understand that they did their best at this problem, but we know better...
This. And they were trying to "explain" this to uneducated and superstitious people.
Scientific theory and faith in God can coexist. Unless one has his head up his azz.