I’ve always loved to understand how living beings “work”. For example, one of my earliest interests was lactation in kangaroos; the female has 2 joeys a year apart and she manages to produce two types of milk, very different in composition, in different amounts. How is that process controlled? In the last few years I have been fascinated with the parallels between what we think we know about the origins of the universe and the story in Genesis 1 (although you have to go to the original Hebrew to see it, sometimes). I just love life!
I detect a kind of desperation and even a lack of faith among Creationists. They seem to believe if you don’t interpret Genesis literally then the whole fabric of Christianity will unravel.
I’m not personally invested one way or the other. I just think the question is way out on the periphery of Faith matters. Creationists seem to believe it’s the core.