The Language of God sounds interesting, but to cite St. Augustine as pleading ignorance on our origins is a bit of a stretch. I’m reading City of God right now, and just read a long part that kept returning to creation (Books XI-XII). While Augustine does have a strange flavor to his beliefs on it (he argues at length that God created the angels on the first day as part of the “light”), he holds to a six-day creation “less than 6,000 years ago” (writing in the 5th century AD) and makes some pretty persuasive arguments against “old earth” theories of his day.

Like you, I just want to know the truth, which is a commodity in short supply today. But Augustine had one statement on the Bible–speaking of the mechanics of God creating from nothing and standing outside of time–that I thought was immensely helpful: “We cannot understand what happened as it is presented to us; and yet we must believe it without hesitation.”