I am not a fundamentalist. However,Is-
“The universe sprang into existence instantaneously in the big bang as a hot, dense soup of matter and energy. Then, in the first 10-30 seconds, space itself expanded much faster than light speed.”
-more rationbal than a supreme Diety creating the Earth in six days?
Quantum mechanically, and relativistically, ~14 billion years is mathematically equivalent to 6,000+/- years.
Yet burning perhaps even in the earliest phases of galactic history, it would have taken at least two to three generations of stars to fuse elements heavier than carbon now in the Sun.
A little bit of science makes God’s existence all the more fascinating.