The Blissfully Ignorant, and The Ignorantly Blissful

So to my first serious topic, I would like to present my idea of what Christianity in America is compared to my personal thoughts and feelings on the topic. Science is making leaps and bounds in the explanation of how everything works and why we are here. Evolution is an accepted and basically proven fact in the scientific community and still more discoveries are being made daily. Evolution through Adaptation is no longer a theory and again we are closer than ever to being able to entirely dismiss the thought of a god figure. So how is it that there are so many people in the world that still believe in a religion that in its basic ideas says the world was created 6,000 years ago, when we have found remnants of pottery and tools dating back tens of thousands of years? I feel there are two good explanations for this. The first is what i feel appropriate to describe as being blissfully ignorant.
This idea to me is the realization that the bible is one of thousands of ancient texts, and this one just so happened to make it through the major wars and political upheavals of the ancient world, and was then introduced to people who took it all much to seriously and began to accept these guidelines as written dogmatic law. The blissfully ignorant person is entirely aware of the explanations given by science and for the most part accepts them as fact. I feel the best explanation is that more than likely we are just living tissue with a developed sense of self and are capable of cognitive thought. We are born and make decisions on what we do every day, and then we die. There is no afterlife more than likely, and there will always be a tomorrow, even after humans are gone, the earth is gone, and all the stars burn out, there will still be something. But the blissfully ignorant person feels best to think that if you live life as a good person, then if there is a heaven, then we get to go there. The bible is taken as law by many people, while in my life I try to accept it as a guideline on how to be a good person.
On the other end of the spectrum are the The Ignorantly Blissful. These are the people who instill a sense of strong dislike in many of my friends who feel that being a devout Christian is a bad thing and hypocritical. Today these people are often the right wing ultra elite of society. There are many conspiracy theories about that part of society but I speak more to the average American super-Christian. The people who feel that these words, written by mans interpretation should be taken as infoulable law. If the bible says to love one another, then why is it that some of my atheist friends who try to be good accepting and loving people will, according to the bible, go to hell for not worshiping the correct god. I'm sure everyone faced with an eternal realm of pain or heaven, would prefer heaven. In reality God is what our mind has created to explain the unexplainable. I am comfortable with this. An idea to base our reasoning for being loving and kind is not a bad idea. Taking this to the extreme it has been taken too today is an unsafe and insane act, one that with in a few years will be explained away, just as our "flat" world was.