Evolution does occur. It's just a question as to how much of biodiversity is it responsible.
I personally don't believe in common descent -- albeit there are people I respect who do. I just think it makes much more sense that a whole pile of things got created about 500 million years ago --and the fossil record actually supports this. Of course I'll be accused of being an apostate because I'm an Old Earther.
but evolution, then you deny the bok of Genesis, the very foundation of whay Jesus had to die on the Cross.
You can still believe in the uniqueness of man -- and it's irrational not to as we are obviously unique in nature -- and our fall. And there's nothing wrong with having the faith the Genesis is ultimately going to be proved right, which is not a bad assumption considering the track record of the Bible vs. conventional scientific wisdom. There are those, however, who are trying to play by the rules and do things empirically, and I'm not going to argue faith when they are talking science.
And concerning the New Testament, when you apply standard historical scholarship and archeology to the Gospels, you end up with something that's pretty hard to reason away.
Genesis predicted a creation event. As late as the 1920's the most brilliant scientists in the world, including Mr E=MC^2, held to a static universe, ie: no creation event. Genesis was correct. How can this be?