I'm surprised to see so many people still using the term Creationism when the religious right has adopted the concept of Intelligent Design. It's semantics of course; no difference in concept, but the term Creationism really heralds back to an age in which science was deemed largely as a religion itself by the majority. See the "watchmakers analogy" in reference.
Personally, I don't see why any religious individual should be at odds with the theory of evolution. Even an intelligent designer (God) needs to have a means by which all creation came into being. Something a bit more plausible that genie style "wishing" things into being. Evolution could be seen as the ultimate means of creating lifeforms and the means by which an omniscient being could create all life.
Now that may conflict with what an individual learned in Sunday school/bible study, but considering that the old testament itself was written by Hebrews thousands of years ago (by men) it is entirely a leap of faith, the very crux of religion, that these writing were in fact "inspired by Yahweh." Keeping in mind that people thousands of years ago did not have the ability to observe what can be observed today. What could not even be imagined or fathomed in the antiquities is reality today.
So there's no mention of evolution in the bible. No one thought of the idea. No one could understand it with the limits of human intellect at the time. If someone found a fossil of dinosaur, it must have been a mythological beast of some kind (like the babylonian sirrush).
So it's a theory. With flaws and inconsistencies. But the evidence to support the theory far outweighs evidence to the contrary. It is not a reason to simply believe all of reality was simply "willed" into being.
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