Katie,
There is no conflict between science in faith, in my opinion. Evolution is a theory, but its a pretty well-regarded one. The problem as I see it is that many times people who argue for or against either evolution or creation aren't very well versed in the one they don't believe. When one looks at Creation, it is clear that God created all there is. He spoke it into being, essentially as an act of will. In John, we learn that Jesus was the word of creation, and the creative force of the triune God at the time of Creation. OK, that's Creation. In evolution, we learn nothing about creation. Evolution does not address creation whatsoever. Not even a little, so there can be no conflict. When you talk about the origin of creation, you are talking about theoretical physics and not evolution. The predominant theory in physics to explain the origin the universe is the Big Bang. That name was a name of ridicule given to the theory by someone attempting to discredit it because the man who developed the theory was a priest and it sounded too much like, God spoke. At the time, the most recognized theory was of a static universe. We have since learned that the Big Bang is far more likely to be right than stasis. So, no conflict except on the timing. You mentioned how creation is mentioned throughout Scripture, but it is mentioned in the context of it being Creation (as opposed to Accidental Occurance), meaning that God did it. There is no consistent mention of timing to support the day = 24 hours (and yes, I've read John MacArthur's reasoning on the subject. I found the logic to be circular and continue to disagree.). To the contrary, there are repeated mentions that we perceive time differently than does God, and that our time has no meaning to Him. So it is difficult to say with certainty, using Scripture as the basis, that what God did in his perception of time is consistent with our perception of time.
If you want to talk about how we have different animals, evolution says they come from long lines of mutation allowing adaptation to various environments. Creation says they were spoken into existance, an animal husbandry of sorts. It says that like comes from like. This seems inconsistent with evolution because evolution relies on new species coming from prior species. However, the "like" Scripture speaks of does not start with microbes and mutations. It speaks of flying things and crawling things and swimming things. There is no mention whatsoever of species derivations by binomial nomenclature. So there is no conflict between species and "things", because they use radically different categorizations.
The remaining apparent conflict between evolution and Scripture at this point is that evolution suggests that mutations are random and creationism suggests that there was a plan. Without having sufficient information on how many mutations there were that were not accepted and how many were, there is little way of testing whether or not mutations were random. Further, the process of evolution does not RELY on randomness. If it could be mathematically shown that mutations weren't random, it would only require an adjustment to the theory of evolution not a complete abandonment of it. To the contrary, genetic engineers use principles of evolution in non-random splicing and experimentation on a daily basis. Now, about like coming from like in Scripture, in the context it is talking about the direct descendants - the change of one generation. Evolution doesn't address changes happening in one generation. It recognizes that species are perpetuated genetically from parents to children. So again, there is no conflict.
Finally, science attempts to explain what is. If you accept that God created all that there is, then science is learning more and more about what God created. So, if one believes that God created all that there is, and if science is learning about what is, then how can science conflict with God's creation.
For all these reasons, I do not think there is a choice to be made between faith and science. I find them to be entirely compatible with one another.
I'll be interested in the debate link, but it will have to wait for when I have enough time to give it my full attention.