Just to clarify a few things from my previous post, re: Creationism and all that.
I do still believe God made the universe/multiverse come into being somehow.
I just don't think there's any good reason to think that He did so 6000 years ago.
Nor can I with any degree of intellectual honesty doubt evolution and speciation.
I DO doubt abiogenesis. As far as I can tell, there's no good reason to believe that life spontaneously arose from nonlife, no matter how many building blocks of life you put together in a chemical soup. And I do think it's intellectually dishonest for people to use "evolution" to refer simultaneously to microevolution, macroevolution and speciation, and abiogenesis, as if evidence for the first proves the second and third.
Now when I say I doubt abiogenesis, I don't mean that I disbelieve it. I don't have a strong belief that it's not true. I just don't have a strong belief that it IS true, and have reasons to think that we don't have good enough evidence or even a strong enough theory to really support it.
And either way, my belief in God isn't dependent upon a literal interpretation of every word of the Bible. I believe most Jews tend to have a much healthier mindset towards Him and His word than most modern day Christians do. It's better to challenge Him. Wrestle with Him - remember that Jacob was blessed when he wrestled with God (or His angel) and did so all night: he was gifted the name Israel, meaning "he wrestles with God". Who are we to do any less? Wrestle Him and His word. Test it. Look closely at the research. Don't just blindly believe what other people tell you to, dig into it for yourself. Make sure you know not only what you believe, but why you believe it. Let your understanding grow and deepen, not stagnate.
I think the modern Christian church would be a much healthier one if it did more of that. If it encouraged more doubt and skepticism and research into figuring out just how much we really know what we think we know, and how solidly we know what we think we know.