I've always been bewildered by the vehement disagreement between creationists and evolutionists. I reject the premise that the two concepts are mutually exclusive.

I'm quite sure that Satan didn't plant dinosaur bones in the Earth to trick us into shunning God. I'm also sure that the fact that life on Earth evolved from a primordial goo doesn't even remotely disprove the existence of God.

I read the Bible for the first time when I was 14. At the time, I already had a basic understanding of evolution and the origins of the universe. Even at that young age, the two theories of creation and evolution seemed to compliment, not contradict, each other.

As I grew older, I became fascinated with astrophysics and quantum mechanics. As you probably have seen in the news recently, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was built to discover whether the theoretical Higgs boson particle (which may be the physical connection between mass and energy in Einstein's famous E=mc2 equation) can be created by smashing protons together at near the speed of light. Physicists refer to Higgs boson as the "God particle." Some do so mockingly, while others do so reverently.

In my layman's studies, I have yet to find one scientific theory or model that contradicts the Book of Genesis from the Bible and Torah. Most monotheistic religions have a similar story of creation.

Religion tells us that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth, and that the Earth was without form and void until He said let there be light.

Whereas science tells us the universe was created in an incomprehensibly energetic event - the Big Bang. All of the matter in the universe was created in a fraction of a second in an explosion that has been unrivaled in scale for 13.5 billion years.

It doesn't seem far-fetched to believe that God was the catalyst for the big bang, and the architect of the result.

The catch is that science has no idea what happened before the big bang, or how it actually came to be. So why would they doubt an omnipotent creator lit the spark of the big bang? With an event of that magnitude, and absolutely no explanation of its origin, Occam's razor would probably lean toward intelligent design.

Science doesn't disprove that God created the universe. It simply tries to explain how He did it. Conversely, the Bible doesn't necessarily get the story of creation wrong, it just falls short on explaining the scope, time, and details involved in the creation.

Why is it so hard for strict evolutionists to believe that God implemented a plan where a mix carbon and hydrogen atoms would bond in the correct manner to eventually form amino acids, and those proteins would later develop nuclei and figure out chemosynthesis, ultimately resulting in a highly adaptable sentient being: Us.

And why is it so hard for religious fundamentalists to understand that the Bible, Torah, and other monotheistic texts just give us a very basic overview of how God created everything, but not the details. Science is doing a pretty good job at that.

As any journalist knows, there are six items that must be integrated into any news story: Who, what, where, when, why and how.