Trying to turn the book of Genesis into a modern science textbook is indeed futile. I have a Roman coin and I am supposed to believe it is 30% of the age of the universe. Really? Dinosaurs coexisted with people. Really? The tectonic plates don’t exist and the continents were moved to their current place in a 40 day flood. Really? Just about everything you see when you look at the night sky is an illusion. Really? God made everything to falsely appear older than they are as some test of faith, I guess.
The Bible being the inerrant and infallible word of God, yes ... everything God says, we are to believe. He made it all, so he should know ... :-) ...
Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy with Exposition
http://www.bible-researcher.com/chicago1.html
I agree completely. The Bible is not a science book and it makes little sense to try to fit it into science or science into it. That isn’t the purpose of the Bible.