You are probably referring to the Inquisition conducted by the Catholic Church. Please remember that one of the 'crimes' that could get you death at the stake under the Inquisition was owning a bible. The bible is the most subversive document ever written.
We live at a time when more people are persecuted for their Christian faith than at any time in history. Muslim leadership does not need you to cover up their crimes.
I notice that your defense of evolution consists of an ad hominem attack, and not a reasoned argument. Why?
I normally see a reference to: http://www.talkorigins.org/ at this point in the conversation, which is a delightful collection of all the fallacies in evolution. See if you can spot the error in each argument! (There are often more than one.)
Christians are held to be infidels.
The Koran calls for the death of any person that denies any part of the Koran. When a Christian says that Jesus is the son of God (the foundational believe in Christianity), he earns a death sentence because either: a) he is worshiping some other God, or b) he is contradicting Mohammed. Either case is a death sentence.
Perhaps you think this is a thing of the past? There is a man in Iran condemned to death today for the crime of converting to Christianity.
The implication of your penultimate paragraph is that you know how to do this better than God. I think not.
The bible presents the idea that God redeeming us predates the creation of the universe (2nd Timothy, 1:9)
If he thinks it worth dying for, who am I to argue, especially seeing how imperfect I am.
Jesus made the sacrifice as an adult, willingly, and for the joy of seeing you accept him. The idea that there is nothing in the world worth dying for is really sad, and makes a mockery of the self-denial that is the highest of man's thoughts.
I would take exception to your idea that evolution is cross-examined in the scientific literature. It is a dogma that will end your career if you question even the most specious argument. There is ample proof that evolution is impossible on its face, and the theory has been disproved by Darwin's own criteria.
(Yes, I have read Darwin.)
I will assume your last statement is the result of ignorance of the bible, because there have been all kinds of neat things discovered about the world because a statement in the bible piqued someone's curiosity. (Matthew Maury's mapping of ocean currents comes to mind.)
There are other possibilities as well, such as the idea of God 'stretching' the heavens. Is that why there is red shift? Big Bang theories have a problem:"First there was nothing, then it exploded" does not happen where we live.
The idea of intelligent creation is critical to science, because it implies that there is an order that can be discovered. Of course, the question of the nature of God comes into play here, because only an unchanging God can be expected to make immutable laws.
Please provide an example of an emendation that became scripture. I would agree with you in reference to the Mishna (commentaries) but not the Tanach (the first five books of the bible) The standard for copying the scriptures was very high, with even a single letter deviation being a cause to destroy the whole attempt.
I use the King Jimmy because the few minor problems are well documented, and I love the poetry of the KJV.
I also use modern versions when I need to quote the bible, because I do not expect the level of education implied by an acquaintance with English from 1611, nor do I expect that everyone will be so interested as to make the effort to understand the older English.
Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.