Modern Jesus

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education"- Theodore Roosevelt.
I know for a fact that very few people nowadays would agree with this quote from the 26th American president. Many may see through these apparently religious words a strategy meant to make the popular masses easier to control, others may see religious propaganda, either way it is stereotypical Republican behavior, and it's not at all what I'm planning to write about today.
As a Christian myself, I had an intriguing conversation with an atheist friend of mine the other day: apparently it sounded odd to her ear that I'm a Christian who believes in evolution, in the Big Bang, and yet believes in God. What seemed to shock her does not seem at all contradictory to me.
"I believe in both and I do not see the contradiction between religion and science, they are two different forms of knowledge, and they're meant to complete each other and they can not be compared: I know for a fact that science will never be able to explain everything, since we have proved that knowledge will always be infinite and no matter how much we know, and no matter how much we advance in our discoveries, there will always be more stuff we don't know than stuff we know." I knew I had lost her by then, she ended up not understanding a word I said, but I continued nonetheless: "We know, and scientists tell us that there are some facts that can never be explained by science..." As I said that, I remembered my 9th grade physics teacher, telling us: "Science can only explain HOW the stuff happens, and never WHY"... Our conversation ended up in a big blob of confusion, which inspired me to write this blog to maybe make my point of view clearer.
No matter what's your religion, no god ever encourages ignorance. 
The Bible is a text written about two thousand years ago, and although it is the base of Christianity, it is not to be taken by the letter.
Religion, in a nutshell, has two major goals: satisfying the instinctive, innate need of humans to believe in a deity, and setting up basic moral laws. If religious people remember that, and try to surpass the little differences between confessions and religions, the world would be able to beat many obstacles, and religion would actually help us get closer to a perfect social model instead of being an obstacle to social development.
I have so much left to say but I'm out of coffee. Cheers!