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A few threads within this thread. Here’s more on the “what people want religion to be” theme. From Dietrich Bonhoeffer the German theologian who died in prison at the hand of Hitler:

The attack of the Christian apologetic upon the adulthood of the world I consider to be in the first place pointless, in the second ignoble, and in the third un-Christian. Pointless, because it looks to me like an attempt to put a grown-up man back into adolescence, i.e. to make him dependent on things on which he is not in fact dependent any more, thrusting him back into the midst of problems which are in fact not problems for him anymore. Ignoble, because this amounts to an effort to exploit the weakness of man for purposes alien to him and not freely subscribed to by him. Un-Christian because for Christ himself is being substituted one particular stage in the religiousness of man.

Unfortunately I think the apologetics did win. They became the dominant face of Christianity, in America at least. They returned people to adolescence and put old problems of the age of the earth and where morals come from back in the forefront.