It's one thing to doubt evolution. After all, it rests on very complicated ideas of genetics, envirnmental pressures, isolated breeding groups, and so on. It's quite another to demand the literal truth of biblical creation.
What's a mystery to me is how a fair number of these folks come to denying that there is any evidence of change of any kind over geological time - not just change in living things.
There is a monumental failure of imagination at work here among people that seemingly would not think much about a boulder rolling downhill or a volcano erupting in 2006, but seem to have trouble imagining the effects of 100,000,000 boulders that have rolled down that hill over a period of several hundred million years, or the 100,000 eruptions of a given volcano over a similar time scale. The face of the earth has been erased and re-written over and over and over again.
Erosion, tectonic drift, climate change, and volcanism are things we can see a little bit of in our lifespans, and may even be called theories, too. That doesn't make them less real, and they aren't offenses against God, either. After all, God created this world.
Same with evolution of living things. Sorry, you may say it's just a theory, and you may say that the evidence is imperfect. You can point at the immensely complex physical structures of life, and ask, "How could something that complex and wonderful have evolved?" I'll tell you that if you look at the very small scale operation of life, at the sub-cellular level, you'll come away even more blown awat by how interrconnected the processare and how even a tiny change in the physical constants of our physical world would make all life impossible. So what? Those aren't arguments against evolution. They are merely confessions of ignorance. But, we're ALL ignorant to one degree or another. That's just how it is. But we must never give up on learning and exploring and expanding our understanding of nature.
There are many reasons to believe in God, good ones, that don't involve discarding the evidence of our origins and the origins of all life on the planet.
Believing is God does not mean we have to check our brains at the church door.
Amen!
What, ultimately, does Genesis tell us? In my view, it teaches that the whole of humanity shares a common ancestor, that we are all children of God, and -- the real challenge -- that even my worst enemy is still my kinsman.
I do not see any conflict here between the teachings of the Bible, the moral injunctions of my Christian faith, and the verifiable findings of science and the theory of evolution.