Evidently narby you think that a religious person cannot be a scientist? If so, what do you make of my tagline?
Surely they can, as long as they don't allow their faith to trump the evidence. But in the case of evolution, it's perhaps a bit similar to expecting the liberal media to be "unbiased" in their reporting. It's theoretically possible, but not likely.
There is one scientist who is an outspoken Christian that I would trust on this issue, Dr. Francis S. Collins, the who led the Human Genome project. He has written on the subject of evolution and creation, and has no problem accepting evolution for the role it has in separating the species.
Here’s one of Dr. Collins’ non-peer reviewed publications: Collins FS. The Human Genome Project: tool of atheistic reductionism or embodiment of the Christian mandate to heal? Science & Christian Belief, 1999;11:99-111