My 2 cents:
Is the creation account literal history?
I have come to believe that it does match with the scientific idea of "first cause" better than a big bang caused by a quantum fluctuation does.
Do Christian theologians find a literal reading of the creation account to be necessary for Christian doctrine?
Literal truth is logically easier to follow than Lies, Hokum, Myths & Fairy Tails.
Is carbon 14 dating accurate?
Up to the point of being able to cross reference with historical documents.
Does genetics support evolution or creationism?
Both.
God created a limited number of animals and people.
Both were "reset" to a small number again by the Flood.
Many animals have changed, adding additional "species" since those events. Noting that "species" is a loose definition created by biologists.
I agree with most of what you said. Except I have been working on a new YEC theory. One that every evolutionist I meet hates because it makes all the evidence work.
Example: The 6 days of creation were done before sin, correct? So what is time minus sin? It's eternal. So the 6 days of creation were done under eternal laws, not non-eternal laws. That is why our current laws cannot explain creation. It would be like trying to make water boil at sea level at 100 degrees. Won't work.
So what would make time eternal? Currently, as time progresses, so does age. As long as age progresses, life cannot be eternal. So if you disconnect age from time so that when time progresses, age does not. Then you have eternity.
How it applies to living matter:
Except this changes the rules of everything. Why? If nothing ever ages, then life never grows up. So if God does not create all life in adult age, then life would simply die because most infant life cannot take care of themselves.
How it applies to dead matter:
A new created earth would be to hot for life to exist. And because in eternity nothing ever ages, earth would never cool down. So to create a new earth would not work. So God created an old earth so that His creation would work. Works the same way for our Sun. This makes age a part of how creation had to work.
Is there scripture to support this?
ps 102:25
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
2pet 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of,
that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
God laid an old foundation, and He made it old by His word. The evo cop out is that God tricked us doing this. No. If you are open minded to the laws of physics being different at one time, it works out perfectly. Plus, as I have shown. It's clearly written. So how is it a trick?
Does this make age dating wrong? Nope. In fact it makes both time-lines correct. The 4.6 billion year aged earth shows God's creation power during eternity. The Biblical time-line shows the "actual" time passage.
How does that explain star light and light years? Because everything had to be created with age already added because age does not progress in eternity. When God made the light shine upon the earth, the star aged according to how far the light had to travel. The only star that did not happen to was our sun.