I agree. The first proponent of evolution was a Presbyterian minister who convinced Darwin to look into it. Most people don't know that Darwin was a serious Christian.
Actually, the early Christian Fathers beat them both to the idea. Both St. Augustine (353-430) and Saint Gregory of Nyssa (331-396) proposed that God created the order and building blocks of the universe then commanded those building blocks to bring forth all living creatures through a gradual process. They didn't go into the detail of the method of this process (they were not scientific naturalists, after all), as Darwin did with his theory of natural selection, but the idea of evolution is very old, and considered perfectly acceptable, and in no way in conflict with the Bible, by the early Church Fathers.
