So you admit evolution is closest possible lie to the truth. Yet you believe something extravagantly far from evolution, which you said "lies closest to the truth." So clearly, your beliefs are bigger, less-believable frauds than evolution, which is almost the truth.
You did not ask me what I believe.If you had,I would have told you, I believe that Almighty God created the universe and all that is in it.That science as part of that creation,was given by God to aid the finite mind of man to better grasp the infinate mind of God.That since the "fall" the earth and all in it (including science) has been corrupted.So, instead of beginning at the beginning,science starts somewhere in the middle and works its way backward and then attempts to advance from there.I don't reject science per se.I reject the aspects of science that exclude God or places itself above God.
This can go on and on, but the fact is, the truth is the truth.A army of Christians can't change it and a army of scientists can't change it.
"Almost the truth" is like "almost pregnant"
"Almost the truth" is like "almost pregnant"How tall am I?
You could answer that with an answer which was 'close' by simply choosing the height figure for an average adult male living here in America and it would be 'almost the truth' ...
Now to the point: When is the 'almost the truth' literally the only truth you've got (and it is nowhere close to "almost pregnant")?
Ans: In most fields of science.
I can measure current in a circuit and with the best calibrated meter I have come only within +-.02%. I could almost never ever count every electron however, so, I would have to settle for 'almost the truth' as the truth in this case.
Sorry to act like I'm channeling Clinton here, but it ain't necessarily so.
"Almost pregnant" could result from such things as:
1) Amazingly, actually pulling out in time (if he'd gone for one more thrust, she'd have got knocked up).
2) Premature ejaculation. 3) A statement clinically describing the condition, resulting from what will later prove to be a successful fertilization, but describing the interval of time before the sperm have actually fertilized the egg...
Off-topic humor and (hey, this is Free Republic!) anti-French joke:
Three Frenchmen were practicing their English, and the subject arose that one of their wives was just not getting pregnant, no matter how hard they tried.
The first Frenchman said: "She's impenetrable."
No, no, the second Frenchie said. "She's impregnable!"
"Mais, no, je connais" cried the third, triumphantly.
"She's INCONCEIVABLE!"
Which brings us back to 'almost pregnant.'
So God might have created the world in six days, but in his creation he would have left dinosaur fossils that were already aged a great deal?
Then learn something about science. No science excludes God. Science simply has nothing to say about God. If God created the universe via the big bang and allowed it to proceed according to natural laws that He created until such a point that somehow life arose on the earth and that this life proceeded to evolve (with or without intervention from God) until today, science would have no way to detect the fact that God played any role. The theory of evolution no more mentions or contradicts God than any other theory in science. It may be contraditory to your beliefs. However, you need to remember that you are human and no matter how strongly you believe whatever it is you believe, you may be wrong.