Until someone can explain how life just magically "began" out of nothing with the ability to duplicate itself, the average person (especially conservatives) will continue to believe that God has a hand in developing and overseeing life on earth, and everything in this universe.
I am of the belief that God created life on earth and continues to have a hand in its development.
You hit the nail on the head on why the creos are fearful of science and what science may find ...
I agree, and I believe it too. So long as you believe God works through Darwinian processes, there is no conflict with the above and science.
That is not, however, what the intelligent design people are proposing. They're saying that Darwinian processes cannot explain certain "irreducibly complex" aspects of life. That's bunk.
I am of the belief that God created life on earth and continues to have a hand in its development.
What happens if some day scientists figure out how life spontaneously emerged from non-life? They haven't yet, but suppose they do. Will your faith in God be shaken? Mine won't, for I believe that God designed the laws of the Universe such that the emergence of life was inevitable.
That is not a belief that science could ever falsify, for it is completely outside the scope of science. I think there is a good philosophical case to be made for it, but it is not scientific.