For me I believed Christianity was true until about 19. I grew up in a Christian home, went to a Christian school, had Christian social circles. That was just the way things were. In my junior high and highschool they had a class about "why evolution is not true" and this was my 7th grade science class where I was surrounded by a room of Christian kids. No one questioned a damn thing one time. Looking back on it, I ended up reading Darwin's Theory for Evolution (some of it anyways). In the book there is a chapter dedicated to explaining possible "holes" in the theory and why they didn't disprove it. My teacher had literally taken the things from the chapter and told them to us without the explanation to explain why the claim was false.

This curiosity started for me my freshman year in college when I attended a Christian University. At least they had evolutionary science books in the library. I basically told myself what everyone else is always saying. "Challenge your faith!" I had read a book on critical thinking and realized that my own personal biases could influence my interpretation of information contrary to my own beliefs. I decided to try my best to set that aside. I said "If I am really going to test my faith, I need to be willing to walk away from it all together if what I discover points me in that direction." In my mind if I wasn't willing to do that, then I wasn't really willing to challenge my faith.

So I did it. I should point out my family and church believed in the Creation account, the Bible as (when convenient) literal, and the earth and all its inhabitants were put here 11,000 years ago. I just want to clarify because I am not looking to start discussions on faiths that include evolution etc. Just explaining my story.

Anyways, probably the most convincing book I read was on Irreducible complexity. To me that was the strongest argument for creation my school or anyone had gave me. The idea is that the eye is made up of complex components that rely on one another to work. Since it needs all of its pieces to function it had to be made in one piece and not evolved over time right? Boy was I wrong haha on a lot of things in fact.

I ended up studying and reading authors like Bill Nye, Sagan, etc.

This video ended up summarizing how I feel best of all:

https://youtu.be/cRmbwczTC6E?list=FL_NQ4dJ0xq9YAmCGh00wdBQ

I learn knew things every day. I am open to both arguments and sides of the conversation, but I am ok with being uncertain and not needing an answer.