>> What is important is if all of existence is a creation by the Supreme Lord for His purposes, or is it all a meaningless accident somehow set into motion by - nothing. Those are the two choices.<<
Of course those are the two choices. However, you cannot discount science completely out of hand either. God gave us the intelligence to explore, invent, and understand the earth we live on. If the Bible is to believed as the perfect word of God science must fit the information in the Bible. If it does not, one of the two is in error. We believe the Bible to be the infallible word of God so it follows that the Bible is not in error. That does not eliminate the possibility that our understanding or interpretation of the Bible is in error.
If we cannot even explain the length of day during creation or Biblically show that the world is indeed older then the 6-7000 years since Adam is it any wonder we are losing credibility with the College educated crowd?
I say it is important to understand those issues or we do injustice to our mandate to spread the word to all the world. If there is a complete difference between proven science and Biblical text people will follow one or the other but not both. I fear too many have gone with proven science over simple faith.
When we understand the Biblical text completely there is no argument between science and the Bible. The Bible has never been proven wrong.
Evolution as they try to teach it cannot be proven. However, neither can most people explain proven science with their understanding of creation.
BTW: I am a born again Christian.
Much of what is called “fact” in science is not fact. Ever read “Forbidden Archeology”? There is a knowledge filter in much of science - look at globaloney warming? Lies! Hidden data - wrong data, wrong conclusions. Same thing in any field that relates to evolution.
I disagree entirely about whether a “day” means this or that in the Bible. In the Bible there is the sentence “With God, all things are possible”. He can make a “day” be whatever He wants it to be.
Also, according to my study, the world or this entire universe is not all of existence. There is an eternal Kingdom of God that exists far beyond this created realm. “Day” only refers to this universe, this planet, not eternity.
So arguing about what a “day” means in the Bible is to me veering off into a dead end of angels dancing on pins. Why not focus on the lies that are told and evidence hidden by evolutionists? As well as their motives.