The thirteenth chapter is titled as 'The Difference Between Origin Accounts in Science and Scripture is Metaphysical in Nature'. Chapter 12 is here. Chapter 13 argues that Science as an academic discipline does not deal with certain category as much as Scripture, at least as it is in Genesis 1, does not deal with certain topics. For example, scientific inquiry is about the world or the nature that can be observed and can be verified or falsified. Scientific inquiry does not ask question like 'what is the purpose of human existence?' This sort of question lies outside of the domain of scientific inquiry. Likeness, at least in Genesis 1, the author is not really interested in dealing with the question of the material origins of different objects/living organisms; the author is rather concerned with something else. Thus, whether evolutionary theory is correct or incorrect, the author is not really concerned with such ideas. The Bible does say that God is the author of all, yet it does not really say how God authored it. His handiwork is thus not really opposed to the way scientific process describes it.
I think it's fair to put it this way: God is the author of the world and the Word, and the two are not going to be contradictory.
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