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I know a lot of people whose main hangups about faith are because of these sorts of side issues. The Bible says not to place stumbling blocks in peoples' paths, and this issue is a stumbling block to a lot of people. Don't be like the people in Paul's time who claimed you needed to be circumcised to be saved; if the total accuracy of our cosmological beliefs were a requirement for salvation, I doubt any of us would be saved. If someone begins to teach blatantly false, gospel-contradicting doctrine they claim to derive from their synthesis of evolutionary theory and Christianity, you can and should object to this.
Also, you certainly don't need to believe in a 6,000 year-old Earth to be a Christian, or even a creationist. The billions-of-years-old estimate of the age of the universe has little to do with evolution and more to do with physics.