I’m one of them close minded Bible thumpers who reject the ascension from monkeys, but that’s just me. And a much shorter time line.
Visit Carlsbad Caverns and then explain yourself.
While I disagree with your theory of origins, I have to give you points for your tagline.
Me too on the monkey ancestors. That notion is even less likely than is a significant human contribution to global climate change — which puts it in the range of being hit by lightning every day for 50 years in succession.
I’ve never, however, been hung up on the time line. Given the history of both the translation and canonization of the Holy Book leaves me to conclude that literal translation of specific measurements of time and space are problematic and to me and really don’t add or subtract from the broader meaning. Others view it differently and that’s fine —
Just remember to count for the production of heavy elements which evidently has taken two or three stellar generations prior to the formation of the Sun for them to have formed and been incorporated in the Earth.
A younger universe theory needs to account for this beyond the idea that God just snapped his “finger” and made it happen. Research into the processes that gave us nuclear weapons indicate this scenario is simply not so.