“fear and trembling […] emotional and religious tensions […] understand the science of evolution while retaining - even bolstering their faith.”
This viewpoint assumes that there is a contradiction between the Christian faith and Science. There is not. Christianity is founded on historical fact (including eyewitness testimony); Science is founded on empiricism, direct observation. The Creator of the universe is coherent and honest and knows how He made everything that exists, so what we observe in Nature will accord with what He has revealed in Scripture.
What do we observe in Nature? Life arises from only the same kind of Life (or its programs) and never from non-life. Random, natural mutations act within the limits set by an organism’s genetic code and never result in newer and more complex genetic program, structure, and function. Cells, the basic units of Life, arise from only other cells. And program comes only from programmers (or their programs).
Whom do these facts better support, Moses or Darwin?
Ask Stanley Miller and Harold Urey; for all their efforts to show that Darwin’s creation theory was even possible, nothing. And Richard Lenski? After decades and thousands of generations, his bacteria were still just bacteria.
“Evolution” is nothing more than atheistic naturalism, a “religious” opinion (in the most antiempirical sense of the word). It’s Gaia in a lab coat. Not Science but science fiction.