The TV weather-girl is hired because of her big boobs and her willingness to date the station manager. We expect a bit more from scripture. But that aside, I am impressed by your skilled dismissal of literal meaning of these passages. Those passages nevertheless nailed Galileo for heresy because he was writing and teaching about the solar system. In retrospect, the literalists look like idiots. This is something that we should seek to avoid. I suggest that those same interpretive skills can be happily employed to reconcile Genesis and evolution. Many denominations already do so.
Actually, I have never categorically ID'd (no pun intended) my self as a YEC'er, materialistic evolutionist or other member of either camp on these threads.
I accept all possiilities as being, well, (for lack of a better word) possible. Is the world only 6,000 years and human perception indicating otherwise a "trick of the devil"? Maybe - since we have'nt measured the capabilities of supernatural beings (much less irrefutably determined their actual existence) a being might be capable of that.
Is Genesis an allegory for a magnificent clockwork made and "wound up" by an almighty creator? Sure, that's possible.
Is atheistic materialism correct, i.e., there nothing beyond or in addition to that which can be observed and measured, making the Bible and any other scripture a flat out lie. I have to consider that as a possibility, too.
I can give you reasons why I am a Christian and rationally defend my faith, but ultimately, I cannot build a scientific case for my faith. But my faith and my experiences with God are the most amazing and (subjectively) real aspects of my life.
PH, the crevo discussions don't interest me as much as that excellent recently posted thread of Dr. Randall's theories of superstrings, branes, and gravitic force. Some of the recent advances in theoretical physics are quite remarkable when you consider what kind of language an all knowing God would have to use to describe "His Kingdom" to people that did'nt have Newton, Einstein, Randall, and Hawking in their libraries.
We expect a bit more from scripture.