Ok! I’ve finished the book. 
I’m so glad you recommended it Johny. Miller seems to show quite clearly and in a uncomplicated way, how the evoutionary processes (which science seems to testify to) that have been going on for so many billions of years, really do account for all the different life forms on earth. I’d been scared to really look at evolution (being content to read anti-evolution literature) in case evolution only ‘seemed’ true and was some sort of ‘trick’ which I would be taken in by! (I’m not saying I thought the biologists/scientists were deliberately misleading people, but may have been mislead themselves). I don’t have this worry about ‘gravity’ being a reality, or 2+2 equalling 5, so why was I so worried about evolution being ‘true’? I thought it would harm my faith in God, and Miller has a good go at showing how you can believe in both- but the book does not really address ‘Christianity’ in light of evolution. I’m sure he would have to write several more books to do that, because so many ‘problems’ come to mind (my mind) when I now try to understand Christianity ( the idea that we started off sinless and need saving from sin ). That idea seems now really weird when considered in conjuntion with the biological processes of evolution. 
In the chapter ‘God The Mechanic’, Miller exposes Michael Behe’s claims of irreducible complexity as erroneous (which was upsetting as Behe is (was) one of my heroes, his signed copy of Darwin’s Black Box proudly displayed in my bookcase!).
Here are three points I wrote down, that Miller asserted, and which seem to deny the message of the Bible:
Evolution is not rigged- (‘The Road Back Home’ page 233). Miller seems to be saying that he sees no problem with God being the First Cause and causing the ‘Big Bang’ from which evolution evenutally works it’s processes, but that these processes were not ‘rigged’ to definately produce us humans. Evolution could have produced many different kinds of life forms different to the ones we know of and are around today. Miller is asserting that the ‘process’ once unleashed is left to work its way whatever that may bring. Having always believed that God made man in His image and planned to live with man forever (in the New Heavens and Earth), this ‘hit and miss’ idea seems strange (but does make sense to me). This ties in with the second point:
**God is not affecting history ** in ‘The Road Back Home’ page 237, Miller states:
‘To a biologist, evolution is subject to chance and unpredictability, just like human history. Its outcome is uncertain, and likely to be unrepeatable, just like human history. And evolution admits to no obvious purpose or single goal, just like human history. HIstory, like evolution, seems to occur without divine guidance. No one seems to think that a religious person engaged in the study of history must find a way that God rigged human events in order to cause the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, or the Holocaust. Yet curiously, that is ecactly what many expect of a religious person engaged in the study of natural history- they want to know how God could have ensured the success of mammals, the rise of flowering plants, and most especially, the ascent of man.
My answer, in every case, is that God need not have. Evolution is not rigged and religious belief does not require one to postulate a God who fixes the game, bribes the referees, or tricks natural selection…’
If Miller is right (and he seems to be talking sense in my opinion) how does this fit with the God of the Bible who **DOES **affect people and events down here? E.g Bible prophecies, God knowing the end from the beginning? God manipulating people like Pharoah (He hardened his heart?), God as the potter fashioning dishonourable vessels? ‘The lamb of God slain **BEFORE **the founding (disintegration) of the world’???
These two points of evoution and history not being rigged brings me to the third point:
**Things are not determined **- Miller discusses this in ‘Beyond Materialism’ and compares the unpredictability of events at the subatomic level, with how our choices are not 'truly determined, but are undetermined- hence free will, choosing good over evil etc.
This third point need not be at odds with what the Bible teaches (seems to teach?)- there are plenty of Christians who believe in a God who has determined all things (e.g Calvinists) and a God who allows a certain amount of ‘freedom’ in order for people to be accountable for their actions (most Christians I know).
How can God know how something will pan out, if the future is undetermined? Or if things are generally undetermined, God would then have to dabble with things in order to affect an outcome He wants which the Bible has many examples of). Again, Miller makes very good sense, but I can’t help wondering if those quarks or whatever they are, whose actions we can’t determine, are following some ‘unseen’ law that has actually determined what they will do? Am I being too dumb to think that? At least you can see how limited my scientific knowledge is. 
My biggest problem if evolution is true (sorry I still say ‘if’, my doubts still persist a bit) is how we understand death and suffering and ‘sin’. If we need saving from death and suffering (and sin) then is it really our fault we were thrust into a world that will break down and cause us to suffer and die and do things we may not want to do? My head really is spinning where that is concerned.
I’ll look forward to your comments guys.
). I’d never really lingered in Genesis long enough to get really bothered by this strange story. Did God create Adam to ‘look’ twenty years of age when really he was newly created? It doesn’t sound as silly (to me) as the above scenario of the universe only seeming to be old, but surely the same principles apply… 
My worry was never about that, but rather about whether Christianity can exist alongside the discoveries of science, so namely: is Christianity true? I’m hoping Miller can persuade me that evolution and Christ ‘make sense’. We shall see… 