@cockswain – Yes, many forms of religions evolve. Unfortunately, a few forms like widespread creationism (part of the evangelical movement in the US) do regress toward the dark ages. Bashing evolution and fruit fly research is not so much different from bashing witches. The only small progress is refraining from burning evolutionary biologists while some alleged witches in fact lost their lives.
The bible was not written as a science book. Many contradictions between science and Christianity disappear if we don’t take every sentence in the bible literally. The bible also contains myths, such as the two creation myths.
It seems that outgroup homogeneity bias is quite widespread in certain circles as if all forms of religions were the same. If you look at my recent question
http://www.fluther.com/disc/77776/raising-children-can-explanations-for-the-existence-of-religions-explain/
you will find an atheist who views himself as open minded (good one!) and who equals religious nutcases (which do exist) with religion in general wanting his child to grow up “religion free” and saying that “stopping religion is like trying to cure a disease. If we don’t treat every symptom, the disease could come back in our own children.” Well, it seems to me that this poor guy Jason needs a vaccine against close mindedness.