There's a reason people like Ken Ham stick to the Bible so literally and inflexibly and that's because trying to mix Christianity and science produces an intellectual morass that does neither science nor faith any justice.
Notice I didn't say science and religion are incompatible. If you want to invent an invisible higher power, whether it looks like an elephant, a warrior god, your unshaven grandfather or a bowl of spaghetti that's your right and fine by me. My personal belief is that I can't prove or disprove the existence of a higher power so, until that proof exists, I'm sticking with what we can see, measure and reproducibly test. That's the great thing about science, it changes with the proof. Science can tell you why the wind blows, the water flows and the grass grows. The things science can't explain we can hold our head high when saying, "I don't know."
For Christians it's a somewhat different problem. If you accept evolution it undermines the entire basis of Christianity, which is founded on the belief that we were once unfallen beings of glorious stature. That's why true believers, especially the literalists, have to keep science at arm's length. Evolution undermines the entirety of the creation story in Genesis. If there was no creation, there was no Garden of Eden. No Garden of Eden, no tree of the knowledge of good and evil and, without the tree, there was no original sin. If you believe in evolution, none of that happened. If there was no original sin then man does not need a redeemer and that is the entire basis of Christianity.
If we evolved, then we were never unfallen beings. Who we are was shaped by millions of years in the brutal crucible of survival. The good, the bad, everything that we are as human beings represent the dominant traits that helped us claw our way to the top of the food chain and helped our ancestors survive long enough to reproduce. We are who we are because our environment made us that way, so how is that wrong? We don't need saving if we're the complex product of evolutionary forces.
Christians who graduated science class are confronted with a limited number of options. Either science is wrong or they have to concoct some compromise philosophy, like theistic evolution, to explain the discrepancy. You don't have to think about it too long to realize there's no bottom to that slope. Christians will be continually dreaming up new compromises for conflicting data until it completely reshapes their belief structure.
Science, on the other hand, has no such conflict. Certainly scientists disagree about a great deal and scientific theories, once prominent, seem laughable today. But that's the difference between science and religion: science goes with the data and, eventually, the data wins out. That's why you won't find a Phrenologist at the Cleveland Clinic. Science is not undermined by new information, science does not have to change its belief structure with every new advance. Science can admit it was wrong. Science can rewrite the textbooks and move on to the next great discovery.
Christians can't rewrite the Bible and literalists have to maintain the position that science is wrong and that's very sad to me. Although it's funny that medical science is okay when they're sick, it's just those evolutionary biologists. Aeronautical engineers are okay too, especially when believers are flying. Christians want structural engineers designing their buildings and bridges; but those darn evolutionary biologists, somehow they got it all wrong! Well, evolutionary biologists and climate scientists. Funny how that worked out, isn't it?
In Florida, near the town of Estero, was a pseudo-Christian religious cult called the Koreshan Unity that believed the world was hollow and we all lived inside a giant sphere. They hung on until the space program finally put them out of their misery in the late 60s. But there was a time those people really believed and, in that time, they built a large and thriving community. The problem they faced was they pinned their faith on something science eventually proved false. The same problem Christians will face over and over when they try to rationalize science and scripture. Faith and science just don't mix and they never will.