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With all respect for your point of view: I was raised an absolute believer in Creationism. I was certain the world was roughly 6,000 years old. Early in HS I began asking questions concerning the age of the Earth and literal points of the Bible. These were never satisfactorily answered. Eventually I asked myself if God gave us minds to discern our environment and universe and to puzzle through questions of physics, the cosmos, our own origins, independent from what was written down by someone before, why would common sense reasoning so frequently find itself at odds with the Bible (and I purposely exclude the Bible's moral teachings, particularly in the New Testiment)? Surely God wouldn't expect us to believe many empiracally impossible things without driving us practically nuts reaching for plausible explanations for what logic would all but rule impossible.

I've read the arguments on all sides. I've argued extensively and very civilly, primarily with "Creationists" within my own family, always qualifying that I don't know the answers. Aside from making unsupportable by basic standards and strained, to say the least, conclusions purely on the basis of faith, the Creationist argument for the age of the Earth and a world-encompassing flood about four thousand years ago, our God-given logic strongly suggests otherwise. The Bible may be all it's stacked up to be, but I highly doubt it is if it was meant to be interpreted literally.

With all respect for your point of view: I was raised an absolute believer in Creationism. I was certain the world was roughly 6,000 years old.

It sounds to me that you are rejecting more than just an absolute literal interpretation of the Bible. You seem to be rejecting the whole point of the Bible, the spiritual point. The point that man is a special creation of God and has a special relationship with God. This point is completely inimical to the materialism of evolution. Also, let me point out that as far as I know there is no such Christian denomination as "Creationists". That is a name invented by evolutionists to bash Christians without mentioning the word Christian.