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Whether it makes you "adjust your theology" is going to depend on what your theology was to start with.

Exactly. The Bible contains a rather simple story of creation which has no predictive or descriptive power. On the other hand, there are rich and complex geologic, fossil, and astronomical records to be examined, as well as the molecular mechanisms of evolution which I can observe directly in the lab. Since I'm inclined to believe the evidence that is all around me, I have to ask the logical question: does God want us to believe the Bible literally, in its entirety? Or does He mean for us to interpret the Bible as a metaphorical instrument for teaching moral lessons? I'll take the latter--otherwise, I'd go crazy wondering why God filled the world and universe with so much evidence of evolution at the time He created everything ~6000 years ago.

On the other hand, there are rich and complex geologic, fossil, and astronomical records to be examined, as well as the molecular mechanisms of evolution which I can observe directly in the lab.

But to observe the "rich and complex geologic, fossil, and astronomical records to be examined" you have to stack assumption on assumption, miles high.

Take astronomical: Do you know HOW distances are supposedly measured? I sure do. And it would make you sick to your stomach if having an accurate distance actually mattered to you. The idea that we have the foggiest idea how far away or how old objecs are in universe would make you feel safer in a roller coaster if you actually understood the astronomical record.

Distances are key, because astrophyscial processes and types are all keyed to our ASSUMPTIONS about distance, when then create ASSUMPTIONS about brightness.

And don't get me started about the speed of light. Day #1 in science class is usually (if well done) to identify the unprovable ASSUMPTIONS that we use in science. For example, how do you know that the speed of light has remained constant over time? We don't. WE GUESS. We just assume constancy over time and throughout the universe. We have no idea. Using today's speed of light, we think we can calculate distance. But what if the expanding fabric of the universe is the cause of a vastly slower speed of light today than at the beginning? Waves travel through a medium -- FASTER the denser the medium.

Similarly, with the geologic record, formations that scientists claim to have been formed over millions of years were created almost INSTANTANEOUSLY during the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. The same structures we are told represent millions of years occurred in days or weeks right before our very eyes.

Elsewhere, strata that we are told represent millions of years of activity can be found with fossils of trees crossing "millions" of years of strata.