Religion vs. Honesty

I think religion can have a tendency to skew our sight, because religion seeks to be a coherent system that explains EVERYTHING. We can't just SEE something- we have to see how it should be or how it must be in order to fit in coherently.

I just want to see the world as it is.

God created. And here is a fossil that points to the evolution of living beings.

Before, I essentially had to ignore that fossil. I don't want my sight to be skewed like this. Not to look at the world and say, "This should be" or "This shouldn't be"
but rather "There it is"

That's not to say that the fossil now cancels God out. Perhaps both can be. Right now, I look and see a fossil that points to the evolution of life, and I see a world too wondrous to just be an accident.

My idea of God doesn't cancel out the fossil; the fossil doesn't cancel God out.

Perhaps there is a higher unifying truth. perhaps not.