Also, I wonder why some people have trouble squaring being religious with being scientific, and accepting evolution.

You could be a Deist, believing that God created everything, set it in motion, and is now more or less hands-off. Benjamin Franklin and many other Enlightenment figures believed this.

Or, why not give God a more subtle role. Why not believe that his hand actually guides evolution. You could accept everything that evolution says and still believe that God is behind it all, directing the action. Many, many people have similar beliefs to this.

Why stick so doggedly to what the Bible says about creation? You're just digging yourselves into a hole here by trying to argue its literal truth. Surely there are other ways to both be religious and open to scientific discoveries.