But it's pretty clear God did create the heavens and the earth along with plants, animals and humans.
I accept that, but where does it say how? It seems like you're reading an awful lot into a couple of sentence clauses in order to reject the bulk of modern science.
"But it's pretty clear God did create the heavens and the earth along with plants, animals and humans."
That is pretty clear to those who believe the Old Testament accounts. What isn't so clear for a lot of people who believe those accounts is HOW that deity did all that creating.
Many Jews and Christians believe that their deity simply set the natural laws in motion and the universe and all that is in it came to be in accordance with those laws.
There's no conflict of belief in those people's minds.
It's not what I believe, but a lot of people I know who profess Judaism or Christianity believe just that. Their deity created everything by getting it all started and then it followed the natural laws to get to the state it's in today.
No conflict.