He included the recipe for Adam. Adama ... the red clay of Israel.
He also included a timeline. Six days and a day of rest. OK, I’m well aware of potential, alternate meanings of “yom.” Take any one of them, though, a millenia even, and you still do not get hundreds of millions or even trillions of years.
A god that was and is all-powerful and existing outside of time, as is God in the Bible, did not need any span of time at all. Being hung up on time is a diversion as a result. But, He states quite clearly, six days.
And so, I accept that. Science and God will not ultimately be shown incompatible. The current mode of scientific thought on the matter is incompatible, though. The truth will out, and the truth is with God.
I won’t deny the scientific usefulness of certain discoveries arising from evolutionary science. I will, however, deny the accuracy of interpretations of data underlying that science. It’s more explicable to me, under the auspices of common design, and common design certainly does not negate the timeline handed down to us in truth.
If we are going to try to use a literal interpretation of Genesis, we must include the following:
Nowhere in the Bible does it state that each of the ‘days’ of creation, were consecutive days.