To me--and I think I may have said this before--evolutionary theory and religion in fact represent altogether different kinds of truth. Evolution is an attempt to explain how life arose and developed on earth. It is supported by ample scientific evidence, and people who don't believe in it are by and large crackpots. It doesn't necessarily or naturally contradict religious belief--which is more or less an attempt to explain why life arose and developed on earth: why do we exist, what's our purpose, etc. etc.
If you think about it, religion does virtually nothing to answer the how, while evolutionary theory does virtually nothing to answer the why. This is why people can easily be Christians who believe in evolution. It's also why it's a bit distressing that in American political culture it's become an either/or proposition. I'm not personally religious, but I can easily understand how someone can believe both things.
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