Your plea will never be fully answered until christians stop believing in the literal truth of the bible, pure and simple. Isn't that why this is still an issue? There is plenty of modern science that calls into question the traditional christian worldview. But no one is up in arms about what's being taught in astrophysics class because the bible doesn't happen to spend much time talking about whether the stars are moving or not.

There's a lesson here for future civilizations: make your mythology as non-specific as possible, and it will last longer.