Is Christian faith and evolutionary theory irreconcilable?

They can be reconciled -- if you engage in an activity which George Orwell called "doublethink", and is more modernly called cognitive dissonance. It is of course obvious that the bible cannot be literally true; the scientific errors would fill a large book (and have). If you wish to accept it in some figurative sense, then you can put any interpretation on it that you please. The key point here is that religion demands belief in supernatural phenomena, while science explicitly prohibits such. Now, to the red meat: how does the increasing knowledge of the state of the universe, and of how it works, support a theory of the existence of some sort of god? The laws of physics are sufficient to explain every phenomenon of which we are aware, and it is provably useless (as well as intellectually dishonest) to suppose any sort of supernatual intervention.