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Why is it so hard to believe that God set things in motion, and we evolved from there? At some point, we realized (became 'conscious' of) "good and evil" and became human, capable of committing sin. Free will is what sets us apart from animals.
We each began as two cells and evolved individually (Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny).
Some people don't understand that the Bible was handed down in a form other than what it is today: stories. There are basic truths in it, some told in allegories, as was the custom before the printed word, and before widespread literacy. (These folks also don't know enough history to understand that the calendar year we use today is not the same as it was, for example, in 560 B.C.)
At the same time, some people have turned "Darwinism" into a religion itself, with all the narrow-minded, red-faced, angry argumentativeness befitting a Southern Preacher damning everyone to hell on a Sunday morning. The "New Atheism" is a kind of "New Fundamentalism", just in different garb.
I do feel that it much too complex to divide into two sides, then fight about it. I also feel that Faith is a gift and when you have been hurt over and over by people calling themselves "faithful", "religious", "good","Christian" etc., it could make you write a book and take out all that hurt and anger on God and the people who warped your soul.
But 'Don't know much about history,
Don't know much biology,
Don't know much about French I took,
Don't know much about the science book...' doesn't qualify anyone to participate in a conversation about this subject.