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((You don't have to elaborate, a simple yes is enough)) Don't be silly, of course I have to elaborate! 😂😂😂 It was one of the major reasons, for sure. I was an adult evangelical for 27 years. And over that time, I grew increasingly frustrated with the evangelical approach to science. At some point, it really hit home with me that creationists weren't actually creating science, they were just waiting for real scientists to publish papers that were deemed a threat to the Bible, and then they just tried to poke holes in it using sciencey-sounding arguments. When I was 45, I had some other stuff that was troubling me about Christianity, and tech news site I follow published a book review of "The Rocks Don't Lie" by David Montgomery, a geology professor and someone who actually worked in the field. But what struck me about the book is that he clearly wasn't on a mission to trash the Bible; instead, he was trying to be respectful of the Bible and give it the benefit of the doubt where he could. But he stood firm on the geologic evidence that there has been no global flood in the past 6,000 years. I know atheists say you can't choose to believe or not believe; I don't entirely agree with that proposition because I chose to believe that Montgomery actually knew what the hell he was talking about and was presenting his arguments in good faith. Normally, my creationist training would kick in and accuse him of being part of some God-hating global conspiracy among "scientific elites," or some shit like that. I actually chose to dismiss those counter-arguments as specious. The impact of that decision was profound, because for the first time ever, I was admitting to myself that the Bible was wrong about something. And that absolutely blew my mind. And it made me hungry to know--What else was the Bible wrong about? Somehow I landed on a YouTube video by a guy named Evid3nc3 where he talks about the history of God, and specifically the deconstructed origins of the Pentateuch. And he explains, quite convincingly, how the Pentateuch wasn't written by Moses but came hundreds of years after the (alleged) life of Moses and was composed by various authors with differing agendas. Again, mind blown. I was seeing the Bible as very much a work of human hands rather than divine inspiration. Being a Christian, of course, at that point I wanted to know if the New Testament had similar problems. I picked up "Jesus, Interrupted" by Bart Ehrman. And of course, yes. the NT was just as problematic as the OT. My whole belief system collapsed in a matter of weeks.