Form AIG (excerpt on the history of separation of church and science):
Leave the Bible out of it (reflects content, not AIG position)
Near the end of the list of idols1 which Bacon said must be abjured and renounced were any systems of natural philosophy which were built on Genesis 1, Job, or any other part of the Bible.2 This wilful and untrue presupposition, that the Bible has nothing to teach us about understanding the workings of nature, is the ugly root which has influenced some of the greatest scientific minds from Bacon onwards. The mindset among scientists to set aside the Bible did not commence with Darwins Origin of Species (1859) nor prior to that with Lyells 3-Volume Principles of Geology (18301833). The trend had been firmly launched more than 200 years earlier in Sir Francis Bacons works.3 The scientific method, we were told, allowed no room for divine revelation. Bacon wrote that man understands as much as his observations
permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.4
Is from Chapter 65 in Book I.
Again, when man contemplates nature working freely, he meets with different species of things, of animals, of plants, of minerals; whence he readily passes into the opinion that there are in nature certain primary forms which nature intends to educe, and that the remaining variety proceeds from hindrances and aberrations of nature in the fulfillment of her work, or from the collision of different species and the transplanting of one into another. To the first of these speculations we owe our primary qualities of the elements; to the other our occult properties and specific virtues; and both of them belong to those empty compendia of thought wherein the mind rests, and whereby it is diverted from more solid pursuits.
Is from Chapter 66.
Bacon is a pretty solid ID proponent and would certainly be a evo skeptic as far as evolution goes for all things biological.
And we know he had great disdain for atheists and atheism.