@cretaceous_bob: I understand where you are coming from, but you also have to realize that the idea that the separation of science and religion is a modern idea. Rationalism was, for a very long time, supported by the Catholic Church. In addition, one of the most prominent orders of monks, the Jesuits, have ALWAYS espoused the use of rational thought and scientific reason from within their religion. The separation between science and religion in today's world was created by Protestants who have a literal reading of the Bible. Not every branch of religion, Christian or otherwise, directly refutes science.
The Jesuits were founded in the 1500's. At the time there was a belief that God created everything, and god is a logical rational being. Thus, there must be a reason for why the sun comes and goes every day, and there must be a reason for why it gets cold in winter and warm in the summer. At the time science was seen as a way to discover the way God makes the universe tick.
The problem today is that in the 500 years or so since the Jesuits were created, we have learned so much that God isn't needed in that equation any more. We know the answer to many things included how and approximately when homo sapiens appeared on the earth. You have to really try in order to make religion and science co exist, and that's the problem.
Also, if there was no Adam and Eve then Christians have a MAJOR problem. While the Catholic Church has come out in favor of evolution, I'm pretty sure they have never said how that view point agrees with Adam and Eve and Original Sin. This is also the reason why Protestants feel the need to defend a literal reading of the Bible, and kinda gets at the entire crux of the creationism debate.
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