Now, because the science of man tells us that such an account cannot possibly be true, then we, as sinful man is so prone to do, come up with explanations as to how we can get God's word to agree with man's 'scientific testimony'.
To be accurate, that should read "because the fingerprints God left behind in the universe tells us that such an account cannot possibly be literally true, we should reexamine our interpretation of God's Word to bring harmony between the God's Word and the Fingerprints of God".
However, don't kid yourself, God's word does give us a fairly clear understanding of how long His creative work took to build the realm in which we live and then how long it took from the creation of Adam until certain generations came to pass. Then God does exactly the same thing after the flood and Noah and his 3 sons begin to replenish the earth after the flood.
Have you ever actually looked at the population numbers and how they would have to look after the Flood?
Starting population:8
Growth rate: .018 (current rate)
Population at Babel (~200 years after the Flood):319
Population in 1500 AD (when we start to have solid numbers of the world's population and before the massive population boom caused by new methods of agriculture, medicine, etc): 1,178,868,903,793,200,000,000,000,000
Clearly something is wrong there. You can play with the numbers all you want here:
Population Growth Calculator
No matter what population growth rate you use, to get a reasonable number of able-bodied people to build the Tower at Babel (say 5,000 and that's low-balling it) you get a massively
unreasonable number by 1500 AD.
For example:
Population growth rate: 3.2%
Population at Babel: 4,899
Population in 1500 AD: 681,056,321,886,350,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Population growth rate: .5%
Population at Babel: 24
Population in 1500 AD:343,129,973 (this is approximately how many people history tells us we had at that time.
It's all right there in the Scriptures. I'm sure that you do believe in the bible, after all, you can buy them at just about any booksellers.
I'm not sure I understand the relevance of this comparison. I can buy Harry Potter books at just about any bookseller as well. Should I therefore believe in Harry Potter?
The question is do you believe the Scriptures? Do you believe that the Scriptures are an account that God has given unto mankind of all that He has done and is doing that we, who live in this realm of His pleasure and creating, may be restored to Him from the sin nature loosed upon us through the one man Adam, to eternal life with Him through the second Son...Jesus!
Of course we believe that. However, our own interpretations of the Word is where things get tricky. Even St. Augustine understood this over 1,500 years ago:
St. Augustine:
"Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking non-sense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of the faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although “they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion.”"
Also St. Augustine:
"In matters that are obscure and far beyond our vision, even in such as we may find treated in Holy Scripture, different Interpretations are sometimes possible without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such a case, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search of truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it. That would be to battle not for the teaching of Holy Scripture but for our own, wishing its teaching to conform to ours, whereas we ought to wish ours to conform to that of Sacred Scripture."
I believe the Bible too. How many blind men were healed at Jericho?