What made you think you had not been told the truth? I appreciate your concern, and I have researched the question of evolution versus creation, and find the evidence for creation compelling. As to Richard Dawkins, I am familiar with him and his rabid anti-God bias. Just one quote example from Dawkins:"It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that). Uh, thanks but no thanks.
Dawkins does tend to speak his mind, and I do believe he sometimes overstates his case. However, that should not be an excuse to consider not reading "The Greatest Show on Earth".
As far as "evidence for creation", there is not one single shred of such. Were you there at "creation" whereas you can tell us exactly what happened? Since I assume the answer is no, then you simply cannot make such a claim, and most Christian theologians will tell you that one believes because of
faith, not evidence.
Also, being hung up on literalistic interpretation of the Genesis account of "creation" makes so little sense in light of what we now know, and most Christian theologians disagree with you on this. In Judaism, the vast majority of Jews recognize the creation accounts as allegory, and some of our sages hypothesized as such long before we knew anything about evolution.
The mistake so many fundamentalist Protestants make is to try and treat the Bible as a science book, which it most certainly isn't. Symbolism is used throughout the scriptures, so to assume that only a literalistic approach should be used doesn't make one iota of sense either, and even the early church recognized this as being commonplace within the Jewish scriptures. Even the "N.T." authors also used symbolism, such as with Revelations" and also the use of parallel teachings ("parables") that Jesus used.
To your first question, I knew I wasn't being told the truth when I began to seriously look at the evidence at the Smithsonian Museum in D.C. and the Natural Science Museum at the University of Michigan when I was still in high school. I still continued to go to that church until taking biology classes during my undergraduate work whereas my suspicions were verified.
Shortly after my wife and I got married, I left the church because of that position plus the problem with racism in the church. I went to my wife's church after a while, which was and is Catholic, and the RCC has no trouble with accepting evolution as long as it's understood that God was behind it all. Much later, I left that church to where I now go, but my leaving had nothing to do whatsoever with the issue of evolution.
You are not being told the truth about evolution, and since that really is the case, it begs the question what other falsehoods are you being told to believe in? I have no clue where you go to church, but maybe you should seriously consider going somewhere whereas you not being fed non-truths because if they're not telling you the truth in one area, it's likely you're not being told the truth in maybe some others.
