LLL: Very knowledgeable people have attempted to reconcile evolutionary history with Chumash. Some have done a better job than others. We have no statement on if all the animals were created at once, so it is possible (see below) to reconcile much of evolution with Chumash if someone is so inclined. I would be very hesitant when it comes to humans, though. The Torah is pretty explicit that Hashem created Adam and Chava at the end of creation, after all of the other life-forms. Even if one tries to reconcile evolution, La’anias Da’ati, it has to end with human beings.
The main problem you run into, though, is time. If you assume that the 6 days of creation were 6 24-hour periods, there just isn’t enough time for any evolution. The idea that it is heretical to believe that those days were longer than 24 hours seems to be quite a minority, though supposedly R’ Elyashiv did say it (and all of the Mekubalim got very angry at him for it). We do, however, find no Rishonim or Achronim (that I know of) that claim that the numbers of the ages and generations given from Adam to Avraham aren’t meant to be taken literally, so the 5776-year clock has to start from Adam according to everyone. I am partial to Gerald Schroeder’s work on this subject. I don’t agree with it personally, but he does a very good job trying to reconcile the ideas of the age of the universe.
For whatever it’s worth (which is not much), I personally see no need to accept evolution of species as the way HKBH created the world. I see no issue with Him creating a world with genetically related species. Basically, the Kashyas of evolution and science on these issues don’t bother me. But for those that they do, I do think that some of the attempts at reconciliation are definitely not Kefirah. They might not be right, but they’re not Kefirah either.
DY: To be fair, R’ Saadyah Gaon can be read as saying exactly just that. It will depend on how far you can extend “Eineinu Ro’os”.