We will never be able to truly say one way or the other. The evolutionists' side of the story has evidence piling up, so for religion to be accepted as a theory, religious people must think of God as the highest being, or any type of being in which you can give praise to, and that the Bible was written by man, not by God himself. Evolutionists must also realize that evolution may have been God's plan to begin with and God designed and is actually under control of all the mutations that happen on Earth, that eventually lead to greater evolution.
The Bible is the real center of the controversy between religion and evolution; it has been proven by the very best dating systems we know that the Bible was written by more than one writer, founded by more than one voice. This shows that Moses didn't write the Bible from God's words but rather things were added along the years as they may have been needed, to suit certain governmental powers needs. The Bible has been used for thousands of years by many different governments to instill power over their people. The government officials and upper class people would lie to the lower classes and slaves. They told them that if they lead a good life and did not disobey their masters or bosses that they would have a place in heaven waiting for them when they died. However, if they didn't do just as they were told God would look down on them, possibly banishing them from heaven. This was one very effective way to get cheep labor back in biblical times.5 The Bible has also been misinterpreted by the church and societies in the past. When Galileo taught the world it was not the center of the solar system but that all the planets revolved around the sun. The church, which the government of his time had .
5. Rev. "Rich Men- 15 September 2003 http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/richmen.htm.
established, condemned this thinking; Galileo was an outcast to their society, he didn't.