What amazes me most is the inability for these people to just learn and adapt in this area.  I was raised Roman Catholic and went to a Catholic school from K-8th grade.  Before I even left that place I had already adapted the standard dogma a bit to help myself reconcile the beliefs with the reality of the outside world.  Before I received my Confirmation somewhere around sophomore year of high school I was already an Agnostic as my knowledge of the outside world and the realization of the silliness of my parish's teachings grew.  I don't really remember when exactly, but it was not long after that I was a full blown Atheist.  

I'm not suggesting everyone should be going the full godless route that I went, but it shouldn't take much critical thought to realize that even if your specific deity is real the holy books are at least a perversion of the true deity's message/identity.  I think you really have to continuously lie to yourself to take most of these stories literally.  Take what you have learned of the outside world and do what you have always done.  Just say god must have done it!  Evolution?  God did it!  Abiogenesis?  God did it!  So on and so forth.