Of course God and Darwin's theory of evolution can coexist. Anyone who says otherwise is either in denial or does not understand evolution. The question isn't whether we evolved from star-dust, this is highly probable. The first question is, how could we of ever become conscious, from unconscious precursors? One can rub dust together anyway they want too, it's not going to create something that is conscious. There must have been something that existed prior too, that was already conscious. Some might say, "Well, who created that something." Nothing created that something, that's why we call that something God. There must be something that either always existed or created itself, otherwise we run into an infinite regress. We would go on and on forever, asking, "Well, what created that," and then, "well, what created that." Forever. There has to be an origin and an ending point.
Some people seemed to have this mystical view of natural selection. If we are just an algorithm or pre-programmed robot then how did natural selection create a different algorithm for each and every person that has ever existed? I'm certainly different than you, and you different from me, in ways that both nature and nurture can not account for. Two identical twins, locked in a room their whole life, exposed to the same things every day, will still grow up to be two different people. To say my subjective experience came about because of evolution, is just the same as saying Natural Selection performed a miracle. Not once, but each and every time. Also, let me elaborate on this algorithm in our brains a little more. This algorithm, if it even is one, is one that can transcend formal logic, and it is one that can never be wrong. It can never be wrong. This is what's know as the halting problem. The human brain halts itself when there is no correct solution, where as a computer, given the same problem, would loop forever. We have intuition. Such things as artwork, music, philosophical insight and mathematical insight are not computable. One cannot tell me that Natural Selection and mutations gave rise to these abilities. Evolution deals with invariable details, not the origins of.
If there be no God, then how come everything is so difficult to explain? If we are all just pre-programmed entities that evolved from star-dust then why doesn't Richard Dawkins just give us the answers? I believe we evolved from star-dust, but not that we are pre-programmed zombies, that are dominated by genes and slaves to neurons. Infact, I know we aren't. Something spectacular happened. Others may say, "Someday science will tell us all." This maybe true. I don't think some people are going to like what science has to say though. I have zero state of uncertainty that it will be an unfathomable answer and scientific rationalism is going to have to take a back seat. And, if you think the existence of God and dualism are just hysteria and propaganda made up by the religious right to keep the children in line and ignorant. Or, a hyperbole made up by delusional liars who try to convince the simple folk to share in their mental illness, and that nothing of this nature ever holds any scientific weight, then understand this: John Eccles, Karl Popper and Roger Penrose are all dualist. Not only that, but they are three world dualist. They believe in the physical world, or the brain, the mental world, or the mind, and the Platonic world. They call it the Platonic world, but when Plato referred to it, he was talking about Heaven. The Platonic world tackles one the hard problems of consciousness, referred to as intentionality, or how we derive meaning. The idea is that meaning and truths don't actually come from this world at all. That this reality is just a reflection of much greater realities.
I would like to pose another question. There is a postulate in physics. Information cannot be created nor destroyed, only transferred. If this proves to be true, where does my conscious mind go when I die? This is not just my conscious mind. There is this phenomena in neuroscience called phantom limbs. It's where someone loses a limb, but still feels sensation in it. They retain some feeling in a limb that they no longer have. The reason being is that the neural coalition associated with the limb is still there in their brain. So, if this postulate proves to be true, then it's not just my conscious mind that transfers somewhere. Information of my entire body goes somewhere and it still retains feeling.
My conclusion is, evolution has a driving force behind it and the information it controls within us transfers somewhere. This does not prove the existence of God, it does however make it easy and comfortable for one to have faith. Amen