I'm curious, Pete... in regard to Don Firth's point... do you accept the entire Bible..(King James, I presume) as inerrant *word of God*? Or just the old testament? Or just Genesis?
Many books of the King James Bible are close to just poetic expression or literary analogy. Others are hardly more than the writer's version of certain historical references. Do you treat ALL of the bible as "inspired" word of God? Even those who do not agree with each other or, as suspected, were 'selected' for inclusion by the scholars who compiled this version?

Many thousands of books have been written and much research has been done to compare dates, places and people mentioned to known history, and there is less agreement among scholars on that than on the details of evolution.

The facts are important, no matter where they lead.