"Is life just a process that got started by some sort of chemical accident and that will keep on going until some damned fool comes along with a weapon that can destroy it forever? Or is it something more than that?
To be honest, one has to admit that much of the immediate evidence points to the probability of the former. And by and large, of course, that is where much of the immediate evidence always points. Even in periods of comparative security and peace, the hard facts of death on the one hand and of tragic mischance on the other quite powerfully suggest that at the end of life, as at its beginning, there is nothing but darkness--no creator, no creating word or spirit moving over the face of the waters.
And yet: 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth'...And God said, 'Let there be light'. . .There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three, all of them making their counterclaims in a language and with a passion that not even the most skeptical among us are quite invulnerable to. And their strange, unsettling voices speaking to us from the inside and saying, 'yes, yes, but maybe after all, in the beginning and at the end there is...God, whoever he is, whereever he is.'
Perhaps the only thing that anyone can be absolutely sure of is that he will never be able to prove it either way---with objective, verifiable proof. We can know that in the beginning there was God and not just some cosmic upheaval that brought light out of darkness only when we have experienced Him doing the same thing in our lives, our world---bringing light out of our darkness.
To put it another way, unless there is some very real sense in which the Spirit of God moves over the dark and chaotic waters of this age, these deeps of yours and mine; unless God speaks His light and life-giving word to me, then I do not really care much one way or the other whether He set the whole show spinning x billions of years ago. Unless I have some real experience of it myself, then even if someone could somehow prove to me objectively and verifiably that it all happened just as Genesis declares, I would be tempted to answer him with the two most devastating words in the English language: so what?"

-----Frederick Buechner, excerpt from the essay, "In the Beginning" taken from the book "The Magnificent Defeat"