It is my view that purists on both sides are peering into the shallow end of the pool while certain that they are seeing into the deep.

Here is the thing: If there is a God, the Creator of the Universe, then He created time and space when He said; “Let there be light.” Therefore He is unbounded by even the most advanced physics as we understand it today, or He doesn't exist at all. Evolution is His Creative process unfolding before us, or as little as we are capable of comprehending. Why does He use a process? Because He is God and that’s how He chose to do it (as best we can tell at this time.) However, given that He is outside of TIME & SPACE, odds are things aren’t linear at all, we just prefer to imagine it that way because we are too stupid to imagine the level of complexity actually involved.

-Atheist underestimate HUMANITY in general and vastly overestimate themselves.  Existentialists are the masters of this version of underestimation, the captains of the ships upon which fools sail.

-CREATIONAL PURISTS (the world is only 6.5 thousand years old) underestimate GOD and the depth of The Word He gave us.  Wich is a terrible sin, possibly the worst sin, which makes them captains in another fleet heading off of the same cliff.

EXAMPLE:

How would you explain advanced physics, the flexibilty of time and space, and the fact of BILLIONS of years to illiterate sheep herders SEVERAL thousand years ago? Looks to me like Genesis does a pretty darn good job under the circumstances.  BTW don't think that story telling them was similar in any way to what it is today.  Stories that were passed down through the generations were memorized from early childhood. The penalty for adding to or taking away was a rather severe form of death.

Atheists and many religious ignore a fundamental tenant of Advanced Science and Theology, the law of cause and effect; “Everything has a cause, therefore everything has an affect.” It’s really a quite simple either/or if you think about it.

NOTE: 

1.  "And Eli said: I did not call you, go back to sleep."