The bible was written by stoners in a time nobody knew anything and anything.
Evolution has been studied by thousands of our smartest people over hundreds of years, and every one of them comes to the same conclusion. We have evolved our pets in front of our very eyes.
Thats a fairy tale of authoritarism. Your fairy tale goes - people that have phd are smarter. A truth of this myth is not so fairy. People with Phd are conformist to the general idea. So if idea is bad, people conforming to the idea are bad.
No it's not. YOU can spend a good ten years of your life, go do research with the help of a university, and you would come to the same conclusion others do - evolution is real.