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I think that the answers to all your questions and mine will clear in the next life. Not in this one. However we have a choice of what to believe or not in this life. God wants us to believe His word and study it. He also gave us the capacity to think and reason. Just like He gave us the choice to choose good or evil.

By admission that I can not comprehend all that God is, has been, will be, and the day to day details of His plan for my life, I do not feel I violating my own standards as you say.

I know what fossil records, astronomy, and science can show regarding the age of the universe and the age of the planet. I also know what it has yet to explain regarding the creation of man, the lack of fossil evidence of evolution, the lack of explanation of origin of the complex living machinery of DNA/RNA. So I have to reconcile that my own way.

If you choose to interpret Gods “day” as 24 hours, and confine God to live in that box, that's your choice. I think God tells us many truths about how we should live our lives, and also gives us many examples of how we can not comprehend Him completely while we are of this Earth. But He is pleased when we seek to find the answers for His glory, not our own.

He also gave us the capacity to think and reason.

I've presented reasons that I believe that the Genesis account cannot be describing evolution, and reasons I believe a fairy tale/allegory/poetry Genesis would not be consistent with the Gospel being true. I haven't said, "shut off your brain just ignore all questions." Tell me, what part of anything I've said indicates that thinking and reason are not welcome in the Christian religion in my opinion?

If you choose to interpret Gods “day” as 24 hours, and confine God to live in that box, that's your choice.

If someone tells me they did something in a day, and describes that period as having a morning and an evening, and I believe they meant they did it in a 24 hour period that has an evening and a morning, I'm putting that person in a box?

You really believe that? Really?

If Genesis describes the Big Bang and evolution scenario, why do plants come before the sun? Why do birds come before land animals? And if it's just allegory or poetry, where does the allegory or poetry stop? With the fall of man? Noah? Abraham? Moses?

I think God tells us many truths about how we should live our lives, and also gives us many examples of how we can not comprehend Him completely while we are of this Earth.

Can you cite for me anywhere else in the Bible where God says "Here's what I did, when I did it and how I did it," where we are expected to bunde incapable of understanding what happened, when it happened, how long it took or how He did it?