In Genesis, God takes credit for creation and explains it in a manner suitable for a primitive people to understand. Exactly how he did it, he doesn't say. If he did say, there wouldn't be enough space on earth for all the hard disks needed to contain a precise description of creation.
It was actually one of the things that pulled me back to belief.
You know the saying about co-incidence. I found I could simply not reject this as co-incidence. There is stuff that happens, and there is stuff written a few thousand years ago that explains what we know.
Never understand why people reject God for lack of evidence when it is all around us. We live in the evidence.
Actually, want to add something about that gloriously infuriating book.
First time I read the Bible, I was bored. It was like porn without the visuals. “X begat Y, Y begat Z.”
Then I read it again. The second time round, I got a lot of negative commands. “Thou shalt not ....” I mean, seriously, it was worse than my mother!
Then I read it again. And again. And again. No one said I was smart.
And I noticed. It ain’t a book. It is a users manual for how to be human and live with God. I don’t know if I got some freakish magical copy that changes the text on the page, or if I got the intent - finally.
Now I read it for pleasure.
Look at Genesis I:11-12 "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, ... , And the earth brought forth grass, ..."
It seems quite simple.
In Genesis, God takes credit for creation and explains it in a manner suitable for a primitive people to understand. Exactly how he did it, he doesn't say. If he did say, there wouldn't be enough space on earth for all the hard disks needed to contain a precise description of creation.
Considering how concise the creation account and other places in Scripture where God deals with scientific type information is and the level at which He speaks so that any can understand it, it is remarkably accurate.