My personal conviction is that genesis tells the story of creation, and that this is not in conflict with the theory of evolution. God said be fruitful and multiply, for example, but the fact that our reproductive process doesn't ordinarily happen miraculously is not proof that God didn't create our reproductive process. Similarly, just because there is a naturalistic process leading to speciation doesn't mean that God didn't command all species into existence.
So if we admit that life had to begin with creation, we are also saying that the science of life begins with creation which means "creation" science is fundamental to any real science.
