It’s not a battle between religioun vs. science. It is a battle between Judeo-Christian civilization and totalitarian evo-religious materialism.
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As a Christian, can I not have my own understanding of what the words in Genesis 'mean'?
I have never run into any so-called 'scientists' that have ever asked me to question my faith, while they were discussing their 'discoveries'.
The importance of the words in the Bible are that they present 'concepts' which God intended to be understood by the faithful who developed an 'understanding' between God and themselves.
We can fight over whether a 'day' was 24 hours, just like we can fight over whether God removed an actual 'rib' from Adam to make Eve, but it doesn't change the fact that we live in an amazing Universe, and how it 'got here', no one really knows, except by faith.