Do you have a link to such a story?
I've seen survey data that shows some young people left the faith because they saw it as too anti-science. So there's that side of the equation.
Ken Ham's book "Creation Evangelism" is full of quoted testimonies of Christian people who had their faith destroyed by Theistic Evolution, and had it restored through Creation Evangelism materials. Although you may not going along with Ken Ham, you can't really call the hundreds of people who have testified in this book of being liars or mistaken. I have sat in Court cases when I used to work for the District Court, where a case has been proved on the word of two witnesses, so when there are hundreds of witnesses testifying to the same thing, then one would be blind to assert that what they are testifying to is false.
Also, the principal reason, according to statements made by most young people who have left the church is that the church has failed to provide Biblical answers to the atheistic teaching they were receiving in high school and university; and in many cases, their own ministers were agreeing with it. So their attitude is that "if our own minister doesn't believe the Bible, why should we?" And they have left the church never to return.
So the church is not anti-science, because it recognises true science when the scientific method is used to authenticate a hypothesis. But when the scientific method cannot authenticate a proposition, then it cannot be scientific, such as everything being created out of nothing. Then it has to be viewed as a belief system and not a science. Creationism is not a science in itself but a belief system, but it supported by many scientists who have observed the evidence and have made their own interpretations on it - such as the rock layers in the Grand Canyon that contain the fossil records. Scientists have been able to show that in the 1980s Mt St Helen's eruption, the same type of rock layers were formed within weeks of the eruption, and so because the layers were replicated, it was shown that the rock layers in the Grand Canyon were formed in the same way - through a sudden Cataclysmic event. Scientists also found a complete dinosaur skeleton that had shown that the creature had rolled over and over as it if was being washed along by a torrent of water. Through this observation they concluded that the dinosaur was drowned in a significant flood. Also they found flexible bone marrow which could not have been there for millions of years, and so through observation they concluded that the dinosaur lived in more recent times, and at the same time as a major flood which drowned it.
So the church has never had a problem with observational, operational, or historical science. But it recognises that origins cannot be a science because it cannot be observed, how it operated, or replicated, and these three factors are essential for anything being a true science. Therefore any theory concerning origins has to be a belief system, therefore a type of religion, in the same way as agnosticism, atheism, creationism are religions also, because they are belief systems that people based their personal faith on .
This is why I maintain that evolution is not a fact, but a belief system. But I assert that Genesis 1-3 are facts because we have a historical document that records it, in the same way that we know that the life of Julius Caesar is a fact because we have an associated historical document that records it.