Pete... for about the 10th time... regarding this:

"...but there is quite a long list of scientists of the current day who also are creationists ,..."

They may be good at their basic job IN science, but when they make assertions about religious beliefs that affect their conclusions, they are no longer DOING science! Science, in order to be called science, must follow where evidence leads. If you reject evidence because it doesn't agree with 'some' interpretations of 'some' versions of 'some' religious documents, you are doing theology...not science. Doing so requires very awkward distortion of how data is understood.

IF a god "made everything", all science is trying to do it follow the details of the process... and many fine Christian scientists do just that while standing in awe of 'his' creativity. This does NOT require cramming all history into 6000-10,000 years.