Who says evolution "relegates man to an accident of nature". Evolution is silent as to whether there is meaning to the creation of humans. Evolution doesn't deal with "why are there all these different forms of life?" Evolution deals only with "how did there come to be all these forms of life?" Evolution is contradictory only to a literal interpretation of the Bible, not to religion in general. Evolution is a scientific theory, not a philosophical position. It seems that it is creationists who seek to make evolution what it is not.
Give us a break. We understand your handwringing on this point. Evolution stands to attempt to tell people they came from monkeys and it does so with the pretense of using science to prove it's theory. It hasn't panned out and you guys have been changing your story to respond to the problems you've encountered since Darwin. You're a moving target. BS artists usually are slippery.