Of course there’s an element of faith in creation. The earth was created with an apparent age, just as Adam was. The question becomes, who should we love, fear, believe and obey? Do we call God a liar, or men?
The language used in Genesis 1 precludes long ages. It’s impossible to have an “evening and a morning,” (literally dusk and dawn), describing such long ages, or the earth would have to be revolving once every billion years or so. And whenever an ordinal number (first, second, etc.) is used with “yom” it always means a 24 hour day.
But beyond that, there’s the stupendous complexity of the most “simple” one-celled life. It’s laughably ridiculous to believe that a single protein molecule could form spontaneously. This idea, by itself, has been declared as likely as a solar system full of blind men all simultaneously solving the Rubik’s Cube. And the most “simple” one-celled life contains dozens of them. And that’s not counting a variably permeable cell membrane, DNA, etc. Having a whole “simple” one-celled life form spontaneously appear has been compared to believing that a tornado tearing through a junkyard could create a fully functional 747. Darwin had the excuse that at that time cells were thought to be just blobs of protoplasm. “Scientists” today don’t have that excuse.
Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation a long time ago, instead devising the law of biogenesis, that life begets life, but “scientists” must cling to this fiction of spontaneous generation or face up to the prospect of God and His rules that they refuse to obey.
See “Pascal’s Wager”.
You have infinite gain and infinite loss with minor cost
vs
No eternal gain or no eternal loss with minor gain.
Where do you want to place your “chip”? You have only one.