I've become fairly convinced that most people writing on these forums about creation, regardless of which side (or sides) of the fence they fall on, (I'm closest, I suppose with the intelligent design folks, perhaps?), are kind of chasing after wind. When I began RCIA in 2005 and we started discussing they Holy Scriptures in general, an amazing fact was revealed to me, almost accidentally by one of the catechists. The scriptures tell us precisely what we NEED to know. It's not all there is TO know, but it is sufficient for it's purpose as is. All of the arguments arising from Holy Scripture tend to revolve around what isn't there. What is between the lines. Man imposing a particular exegesis and context, which we can not help turn into 20th and 21st century thinking processes. The scriptures are divine revelation. They are intended to point out the divine knowledge of our existence. Not the scientific measurements of our existence. The takeaways for early Genesis are fairly clear. God created everything from nothing. The last creation, was the one He created all other things FOR.....man. Made in the image and likeness of God. One couple. One ancestral pairing of en-souled human beings. This couple sinned and fell from grace at the tempting of a similarly fallen angel. The scripture doesn't tell us, (and therefore, it isn't theologically important to the narrative), how long seven days are for an entity outside of time. There is nothing wrong with science working to discover the measurable truth as far as it is knowable of the first events. But what science shouldn't do is develop competing THEOLOGICAL narratives. That's not the role of science. Their role is to measure, test, and theorize on physical phenomena. Metaphysical phenomena is the domain of the theologian and the philosopher.
