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Science and Religion are not incompatible, the only folks that find them incompatible are the folks who subscribe to literal reading of every line of the old testament, particularly the pre-history parts, which of course flies in the face of all serious Theology.

This is true, but not only that they conveniently forget definitions, like day being "one rotation of the Earth with respect to the sun"/"the time it takes the sun to return to the same position in the sky" -- in the first few days of creation there is no sun (or Earth on the first day) -- the Hebrew word for 'day' there can mean "some period of time", which we even have in English for the meaning of 'day' (e.s. "back in my day", "in the days of King David" etc).

The “young earth” theory, that the earth is just a few thousand years old is not supported by any basis, theological or scientific, its nonsense.

This is untrue, if God is omnipotent and superior to creation then he could run through the creation-events in seconds rather than days/millennia -- that is to say that he could have spread out the universe after "the big bang" (creation of light) faster than light's own speed [like blowing up a balloon increases the distance between points on the surface] -- so there's no reason to dismiss a literal 24-hrs out of hand.

Another interesting possibility is the time between the creation and the fall -- if there is no death before the fall, then would man have aged? It therefore makes some sense to start counting Adam's age as being from the fall & expulsion from Eden rather than his creation-date; granted, that's non-literal and a bit of a leap, but not unreasonable.

The Holes in the “Young Earth” theory are massive, let alone the very idea that the bible tells the age of the earth to begin with, which when read literally or figuratively it clearly makes no such offering.

There are problems with the old earth theories too, maybe not as many but they are there: Helium, IIRC, shouldn't be on this planet at all if it's millions of years old because at the rate of loss that we have now it would have all run out.

When it gets down to the nitty-gritty of daily living it must be asked: does it matter? And I've got to say 'no' -- it doesn't matter if the 'day' is literal or figurative because it's not about 'days', it's about God creating & how that impacts the human-God relationship.