Ron wrote:
"Although this isn't my belief, I think that most folks would say that 
the use of the term evolution may be somewhat anti-religious or at least 
neutral regarding religion. There just aren't many religions that push 
the concept of evolution."

That's chiefly true of the Zoroastrian-Judaeo-Christian-Islamic mythological
complex when read to mean literally and historically true. Outstanding
interpreters, for example Pierre de Chardin, reconciled a notion of creation
with evolution quite well!

When speaking of religion, I believe you're talking of the Middle
Eastern-Western constellation. Moving on to India, both what white people
mislabel as Hinduism and Buddhism as well as Daoism in China are devoid of
creation myths, looking instead upon life/the universe as constantly
evolving. True, they don't use the modern term 'evolution' however their
presuppositions and expression is evolutionary by other non-western
linguistic conventions. Moreover, their root models are definitely
here-and-now, devoid of an alien skygod totem, and entirely naturalistic and
organic wholism - they don't arbitrarily divide body and mind, body and
spirit. Last but not least, they're all free on enslaving notions of sin,
guilt, meaning, and salvation, stressing instead waking up to this very life
the nature of which is play.