some people consider the Bible as world history; i had a Physics teacher who doesn't believe that man evolved from apes; ang sabi nya these weren't true humans, mga degenerates daw mga yun. He believes that man descended from Adam and Eve.

One religion teacher had a good explanation though. Ano ba naman ang malay ng taong nagsulat ng Bible about evolution, big bang, etc? siyempre he would just do his best to describe the process, without the benefit of thousands of years of scientific knowledge. So when he/she wrote "In the beginning, there was darkness...'Let There Be Light'..", he/she could've been talking about the big bang.

to me, science explains how things came to be, but it doesn't explain *who* started it all, or for what purpose. to me it's a bit of a stretch to say life started on earth just by chance.