If you don’t take all things in the Bible as literal why would you possibly take the Genesis account of creation as anything but an allegory. It has all the earmarks of one. All evidence shows the earth is much much older than 6,000 years and there is no reason you can’t believe in Christ and scientific reality at the same time. I would dare say God wants man to be rational not a superstitious savage.
I can't speak for Christians, but Jewish scholars of all demonations have tended to view Genesis as allegory for at least a thousand years. This is why even the most Orthodox have tended not to see a conflict with evolution. A minority of the Orthodox (and a miniscule minority of the overall Jewish population) do cling to creationism, but even they don't take Genesis as a strictly literal accounting. I would be shocked if there were a dozen Jews on the planet who believed the earth was 6000 years old.
Now maybe the Jews are crazy... after all, what could Jews possibly know about the Torah?
The second I hit post, I knew what was coming! The problem with that, is that the Creation accounts are written very clearly grammatically. Simply the evening and the morning was the first day and so on. Your belief in the intepetation of Scripture must 1. be to let Scripture interpet Scripture. All things must be viewed through the lens of Scripture. Science will not save us, nor has it addressed social problems. God created, because He said He created.