I also agree. It seems to me that a search for truth should be the goal of both Christian and science and that the two are not only not mutually exclusive but in fact symbiotic.
There are well-meaning people who are really hurting Christianity when they pose things as either you accept a certain Fundamentalist reading of the Bible or you are an atheist or at least a liberal. Actually, some of the original Fundamentalists did not have a problem with the idea of an ancient universe. The insistence on 6000 years being a litmus test of orthodoxy is something fairly recent.