You are an intelligent man. You know the argument of, “it’s just a theory,” is utter bullshit, because it’s bending the meaning of theory when applied to science. I have not heard of an accepted theory that refutes evolution, but rather ones that modify and clarify misunderstandings. These updates are backed up by observation and experiment, and not by looking it up in an ancient text.

Don’t confuse the definitions of theory (often defined as “an abstract thought”) and scientific theory. It is important to know the differences. To gain the status of an accepted scientific theory, it must be backed up with facts and it must be plausible.

A scientific theory is “a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment.”

To me that’s a lot smarter than “some guys wrote some stuff in a book, and that book says that its true, so we should probably believe that.”

And I find lots of moderate Christians annoying. A factor of annoyance is completely relative to the individual potentially being annoyed. That point is useless.

And there are those that don’t completely reject the idea of a deity. I guess you could call them moderates of some sort. I’m sure there is a term for it. I for one, do not reject the possibility of a deity, but I do reject that any religion I have been exposed to has substantial evidence to back up their claims of what deity or deities might exist, and of the incredible events these texts and traditions claim to have happened.