I don't know if I could say that most Christians don't take the Bible as a scientific or historical document, but there certainly a good many believing Christians who see the Bible as primarily a document of faith, not science. There are many Christians who believe that God created through the wonderful, natural process called evolution.

They see the "dinosaur dance" that the fundamentalists do, as quite entertaining.

As for the 6,000-year age of the earth - that's somebody's extrapolated calculation. Many conservative Christians don't put much credence in that, either.

-Joe-