Scientific evidence vs Religious readings

As a student that was sent through a Catholic grade school and high school, the argument of Creationism versus evolution was always tricky to discuss. Even in a broader scope, religion versus science was hard to discuss.

In my high school science classes, evolution was skipped over. Teachers ignored the topic, assuming we knew the basic ideas behind it (similar to how high school teachers skipped over the gruesome details of the Holocaust).

Religion classes naturally covered the idea of Creationism.

Although it is a Catholic-based education, it always seemed to be too one-sided towards religion. Perhaps it is due to being thoroughly atheist? Either way, my high school boasted over its science department, yet we never were formally taught the scientific basis as to how our world came to exist.

The surprising faculty rule-breaker of this divide happened to be one of my religion teachers. While he took his time to explain Creationism, he thoroughly explained how this was the Catholic belief as to how the world came to be, and followed up by handing out an article to every student. The article detailed how many of the plagues within the bible could possibly be explained by science! Although it wasn't quite creationism versus evolution, this was pretty close; it just framed biblical plagues that seemed to be from a superior origin as a scientific possibility. In order to appeal to both extremes (the devout from the atheist), my teacher offered evidence that supported either extreme. With the bible in one hand and scientific report in the other, he bridged the divide in our class. He allowed us to form our own personal opinion, an opinion that could be formed by reading the bible literally, figuratively, or not at all, while reading the science finding in the exact same way.