It isn’t that “some people get hung up over the creation details” but that faithful orthodox Christians receive the Revealed Word of God, meaning the Old and New Testament, as sacred writings that are not to be dealt with deceptively by artful deceivers such as Ken Wilber, Leonard Sweet, Hugh Ross, Teilhard de Chardin, and many others. Such men lack fear of the Lord (Jer. 36: 24), which is why they take their scissors to His Word, cut out the parts they don’t like, and then paste their abominable evolutionary cosmologies and other false teachings (i.e. social gospel, prosperity gospel) in place of what’s been cut out. When men turn away from the propositional Revelation of God it destroys the acceptability of their worship because their thoughts, words, and actions demonstrate unbelief in God and His revealed truth. On the basis of the Word of God apostasy denotes this turning away from God.
I’m sorry, you err to paint with such a broad brush.
Just because there are things that are falsely called knowledge (skientia) does not mean that all skientia is false.
I am quite familiar with Hugh Ross and he, at least, does not lack fear of the Lord; he however does not fear a certain line of fundamentalist humans.
Some people do get hung up over creation details because they can’t push past their own imaginations, which the bible itself says became vain. Why doesn’t anyone ask the questions that even I have asked, such as why no noons or afternoons in the creation days? Why is a global activity being characterized with a uniform evening-to-morning progression? The 6 x 24 hour folks owe answers here, and credible ones.
I.e. the bible offers propositions with a context. People are not expected to come into creation stories with a tabula rasa; they are expected to have some knowledge about nature already. Since nature was put there to testify about God (and the bible backs this up) this makes sense.
I think it is you, not people like Hugh, who are putting scissors to things rather than asking God what your point of view should be.
And frankly, none of this approach backs up evolutionary theory as secularists see it. Hugh Ross completely dismisses such a thing as impossible. He starts to ask some of the difficult questions that secularist evolutionists don’t bother with, like not only why did life get knocked uphill, why hasn’t it all fallen back downhill either, and why does the burgeoning of species increase rather than decrease as they become larger and bear fewer progeny. And he will not take the secular intellectual question begging equivalent of “it’s turtles all the way down.”
Hugh is not a prophet on the level of an inspired scripture writer, but we don’t have to be in order to get wisdom out of the bible, and out of nature.