[editor-surveyor]

"Creationism--as a movement, as a set of ideas--is a literal interpretation of the creation story in the Book of Genesis. Any time any Creationist claims that the world was made in literally six days, then that person is claiming the Bible as a source of scientific authority."

No, not as a scientific authority, but as a factual authority. God's word has been proven to be his word through analysis of its numeric undepinnings, and rejection of that fact is the biggest rejection of science that has ever occurred in history.

[Rembrandt_fan]

You wrote, "God's word has been proven to be his word through analysis of its numeric undepinnings..."

Numeric underpinnings? You're talking Biblical numerology, right? Paraphrasing Bugs Bunny, you just took a left turn at Albuquerque.

Reason and faith are not incompatible but reason and nonsense are. Arguing the validity of 'analysis of its [Biblical] underpinnings' as proof of Biblical truth brings nothing to the discussion.