<puts on hip waders>
The following comes with the caveat that science cannot explain "why we are here" or "what came before the big bang" which really are the big questions that everyone is going after. As much comfort as I'd like to find in the afterlife, I cannot honestly convince myself that there is one. That said, I can't see any reason why there can't be a creator.
As for evolution, creationism, ID, etc:
I would humbly suggest that folks who don't believe in evolution head to the library and pick up a copy of a genetics textbook (molecular genetics, genomics, etc.). The Darwinian version of events is almost not needed once you appreciate the molecular background for life, evolution, regulation of metabolism, etc. This branch of science only really got going after Watson and Crick gave us the structure of DNA (although Mendel might disagree). As such, most of this doesn't make it into textbooks until the 80's and after.
To say that evolution cannot occur is to completely dismiss the mechanisms that provide diabetics with insulin, give us the flu shot, yield drug resistant bacteria, cause cancer or give us the latest generation of cancer therapies. I suppose we could just chalk it up to the devil and god battling it out in our bodies.
In some sense, our genome is the "Bible" of modern science. It is a recorded history of our ancestry. We can observe (in real time) the small changes that occur all the time.
Take it or leave it, science got us to where we are. You could argue we're no happier, lead no more fulfilling lives and I would not disagree. The fact is, though, we live 2x as long as we did 200 years ago and have a crapload of toys to play with during our short, miserable lives. IMO, to cherry pick scientific results to suit your belief system is a bit disingenuous. We could all just pray that we get better and not go see the doctor.
