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I don't see that as an insurmountable obstacle, given that there are many Christians, even "western" ones, that don't understand Genesis literally.
Also, some Christians have a different understanding of time, and don't necessarily think of creation as something that is an artifact of the past. Premodern peoples often had different conceptualizations of time: the creation story represents a time beyond time, like the Australian Aboriginal "Dreamtime", that is inaccessible to normal consciousness and can only be articulated through symbols.
And yet, even if the Creation story happened in a time beyond time, the existence of the product of Creation (i.e., the Creation itself) transcended that time beyond time to exist and continue to exist in this current time as postmodern people understand it. This necessarily means that the effects of time beyond time is not so much "beyond" our time as it is before it.
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