Well Pete, Jack beat me to part of what needed to be said:

but I will add this to my reply to: "our presuppositions will colour our assessments of available evidence, and that includes you, bill."

I do agree, Pete... and my assumptions include my opinion that reason, however we got it... thru God or thru evolution, does require evaluating evidence & fact. You 'cherry-pick' evidence to exclude geology, paleontology, chemistry, physics, and several other sciences in favor of 1)one set of interpretations of 2)one translation of 3)one collection of 'interesting stories'. You even ignore other collections of stories in old manuscripts which many, many scholars insist should have been included. But, King James' biblical scholars somehow decided.. or were told.. which ones to leave out.

If you choose to believe that this universe must have been created by some Supreme Being, I can't really argue with you... but the facts & evidence indicate that even IF a 'god' did it, the process He used followed certain rules...even IF He also designed the rules, and that He gave us the ability to study the process and analyze much of its content, age and products.

   It is clear & unmistakable that the Earth is a bit more than a few thousand years old...like 4 billion years more. Our ancestors go back WAY further than those lists in Genesis... back to people/beings who had no idea of writing & language. If you choose to believe that God kick-started all that... *shrug*...perhaps so. I don't need to know one way or another. I just refuse to ignore the data science gives us... and if God planned the rules of the scientific method, well good on Him!