Actually, the ERV DNA sequences found in primates including humans affirmatively prove that they are descended from the single individual who got that virus millions of years ago. And thus prove evolution of humans from an earlier common ancestor shared by both those primates and humans.
But besides that, It's always amazed me that religious people would seek to criticize evolution by labeling it "religion". Are they trying to bring down evolution to their lower level? Or trying to raise their flimsy faith to the level of a science?
" because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: " - 2Th. 2:11
You don't understand what religion is. Religion has nothing to do with God; religion is man's way of side-stepping God's commandments to create a god in their own twisted image. Christianity is not religion; It's the only irrefutable reality that exists.
"Are they trying to bring down evolution to their lower level?"
Evolution is the product of the lowest level. It is the result of the desire to live by one's own standards, rather than proven, irrefutable truth.
"Or trying to raise their flimsy faith to the level of a science?"
Is your faith flimsy? - Science is the objective acceptance of the observable. When the observable supports faith, then science requires acceptance of that fact.