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"That's right. It's only a feeble theory contrived (and defended) as an attempt to explain away God."

I don't see it that way at all. If I take a machine apart and write my theory of how it was built I may be right or wrong but I am certainly not arguing against the existence of the builder of the machine. I see the theory of evolution the same way, I don't think that anyone with an open mind can argue that evolution does not occur in any form but there is room for disagreement on whether it accounts for the existence of man. I would never argue against the existence of God but I do refuse to believe that the creation story of Genesis is actual reality. I see Genesis as just another version of man's attempts to account for the unaccountable. Some people are simply unable to live with the fact that there are some things we cannot be certain about. I have been to church and heard preachers argue against attempting to explain the world through the use of reason, all the while ignoring the fact that the faculty of reason must have been given to us by the same God who created us. The fact that human reason is open to failure in no way proves that a creation story handed down from a wandering desert tribe is incontrovertible fact.
Please note that I have in no way said that man was not created by God, only that we do not know the facts of how we came to be here.
Even if I accept the evolutionary theory in its entirety, I still would have to leave open the possibility that that was God's way of doing things and that is a question that I regard as unprovable one way or the other at this time.

I see the theory of evolution the same way, I don't think that anyone with an open mind can argue that evolution does not occur in any form but there is room for disagreement on whether it accounts for the existence of man. I would never argue against the existence of God but I do refuse to believe that the creation story of Genesis is actual reality.

Genesis is mostly about who created us, not how we were created. I have no problem with the idea that God used evolution to create every living thing. My problems with the theory as currently taught are scientific, not religious. I think that science would be much better off if the big pushers of evolution admit that the current theory has some serious problems.