The church DOES NOT interpret the Bible in a literal sense. That is a claim often made by those who lack a thoughough religious education or are perhaps completely ignorant on the subject. It is common knowledge amongst religious followers (well Christian followers at least) that much of the Bible's stories are meant as metaphors and are presented as ways to facilitate reader's understanding of the underlying morals.
Also, like redtailfool said, many of the world's top scientists acknowledge the existance of a higher power or diety. In fact, those two that I mentioned earlier, Stephen Hawking and James Watson, who I'm sure everyone would agree have achieved the highest level of scientific success and are regarded by all as geniuses in their fields, both acknowledge the possible existance of a God. They touch on the subject in many of their writings.
If God does exist (which at this point can't be proved either way), who is to say whether or not He did give us the cognative ability to use science. I'm not saying that this is necessarily what I believe, just a possibility.
So, I think the belief, or at least the acknowledgement that there COULD be a higher power is acceptable. The fact is that, where we are at right now, neither side can prove without a doubt that the other is wrong. To assume that would be either being closeminded and ignorant to scientific knowledge or being a poor scientist for believing theory is fact just because it has not been proven false. That is why we call it theory after all. I prefer to think of myself as falling somewhere in the middle, perhaps leaning towards the scientific side of things, but being open minded to all sides.
