What I don't understand is that while mainstream Protestantism and Judaism have no problem with evolution, many people insist on creationism - even though creationism (and as far as I know *even a literal interpretation of everything in the bible*) is not a requirement of basic Jewish or Christian faith. (Islam is a different case.)

And there are all those other important religion followed by millions.

I was once told, rather sternly, by a Native American with a college degree that "evolution" was a white man's myth. Other Native accounts were similarly wrong. The Crow account of creation was the truth, recognized as such since the birth of the Crow nation in the immemorial past. It was *absolutely* obvious to her.