It's about the narrative. When you examine some evidence, Richard Dawkins today lies when he claims evolution is a fact and religious people today can lie when they make claims about a God they haven't seen or spoken to face to face.
Whose word are you going to believe? You can no more scientifically observe and verify life forms evolving out of a test tube from some kind of primordial soup than you can be certain that past generations are making stuff up about their environment and experiences. The idea that evolution takes too long to recreate such an experiment is just an excuse and some how we know exactly what people where thinking and experiencing thousands of years ago needs some kind of bizarre mind reading.
However not all scientists are disingenuous with what can be observed and measured nor do all ancient texts testify about what happened to people lie about their experiences. There's a choice to be made because we have a limited time to figure things out.
Here's an Oxford professor of mathematics talking about how he believes the best literary explanation of Genesis should be understood.
