I take the bible straightforwardly. It doesn’t bother me in the least that earlier writings may resemble certain things in it. That would be logical if the bible is the real deal and doesn’t present an argument against it being the real deal.
I don’t know why the jibes at some extreme forms of YEC. Our modern cosmologists, for reasons that have nothing to do with spirituality, have posited things like string theory and intersecting universes. We get odd stuff like dark matter that could suggest these things. Two universes that interpenetrate could furnish two frames of reference for the six day creation and the long eras that we observe in our own mortal coil. Suffice it to say that OEC (day-age theory) is considered to fall within the realm of orthodoxy by most serious evangelical scholars.
Ultimately I say I believe because I’ve met God. God closed in on me.
I didn’t make any “jibes at some extreme forms of YEC”. It’s been nice talking to you.