I'm Jewish and somewhat religious. (Not Orthodox, but not quite Conservative either.) I'm a big believer in science, though. Is always like showing the Isaac Asimov short story How It Happened as a way of reconciling how "Let there be light" and Big Bang/Evolution/etc could both be right. Not that I think that's what literally happened, but that God knew two things:

1) Humans at the time weren't ready for a full scientific explanation of how the Universe works. It would have overwhelmed them at the time and they wouldn't have been able to understand it. You might as well teach Quantum Mechanics to a toddler.

2) Humans are great at figuring out scientific laws, but weren't as good at adhering to moral laws. So we needed a little push in the moral department.

My personal view is that the entire Bible is an allegorical tale. For example, I had an old rabbi (Holocaust survivor and the kind of guy who's forgotten more about Judaism than I'll ever know in my entire lifetime) who pointed out that there are actually TWO stories about the creation of the first man. Genesis says that man was created in God's image, but it also says he was made from mud. My rabbi said that one should go through life balancing between "I'm the most important thing in the world" and "I'm nothing more than dirt." You never get too close to either end, but stay right in the middle.