Religion v Science?

A big debate has erupted in the UK media this week in case you haven't noticed. The header on the front page of The Times declared "God did not create the universe". This is reference to Stephen Hawkins new book which comes out on 9th September. This new book, unlike his previous best-seller A Brief History of Time leaves little or no room for God to create the universe. Gravity did it.
All kinds of bold and audacious claims are being proclaimed in the press: "science works, faith does not" is one.
Over the summer period I was encouraged to read This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson. This is one of those books based on fact about the journey of Charles Darwin on the now famed vessel The Beagle to South America. It was on this journey in 1845 that Darwin made many of his observations which were to lead him to write "Origin of the Species" and "The Descent of Man". What struck me most about the book however was the lesser known hero - Capt. Fitzroy. He too was a naturalist and for 5 years travelled with and argued with Darwin as the latter formulated his theory of evolution and in the end boldly declared: "There is no God!"

Capt Fitzroy despite endless arguments with Darwin and much personal suffering and tragedy died a strong Christian with a resolute faith in the God who had made it all.
For Capt Fitzoy it was not science or faith. It was both that declared the Glory of God.

I rather liked Ruth Gledhill's riposte in The Times when she writes: "When we have read Stephen Hawkins book some of us will still pray because ... it works"