I would like to think most scientists are like Copernicus and other early scientist who studied the creation to understand the Creator, but alas, I disagree.
By far and large the vast majority do Not believe in the God of the Bible, the One and Only true God. Their god is much too small to create the world in 6 days, let alone create man without some sort of evolution.
If the true God who cannot lie, lied about the number of days and how he created us, then He is not a true God. Their god is much, much too small to be the same as my God.
Maybe parts of the Bible remain to be decoded?
You are judging a large population by the opinions of those who you read about, mainly because they are 'controversial'.
I think if you took a poll of all scientists, you would find that the bell curve would be about the same as the bell curve for the US population.
If the true God who cannot lie, lied about the number of days and how he created us, then He is not a true God.
God didn't lie. Days have no meaning to anyone other than physical life forms on the planet Earth. All all of them have a different 'view' of what a day is. Penguins find it hard to believe that humans think a day is exactly 24 hours. For all we know, the author of Genesis used the aramaic/latin/whatever word 'day' because 'countless millenia' was too hard to spell.
Since a number like 40 billion is incomprehensible to me in term of 'years', and regardless to the 'length' of what is called a 'day' in the Bible, any 'details' provided by the Bible were man's attempt at communicating to other men. So... if God inspired the 'concepts' , and they are there, then I'd say don't sweat the details.
Evolution is a means to explain the adaptation of life-forms. The creation of new life-forms (advancement) is not done by evolution. Science tries to mix the two, which is why they run into problems.
The creation of man required the will of God. Literally.
Adam (mankind) was created based on the same working and well proven pattern that all creatures use, which you have to admit is a pretty clever plan. God created all the creatures at once. YES. He just didn't have them all 'living' at the exact same time. Just because God said Adam could name the creatures (which only included ones in a five mile radius), doesn't mean they didn't exist before. I mean, it was a GARDEN.
The creation of the Universe, the Earth, all life forms and even viruses was instantaneous. The 'execution' was, however, a bit longer.
The good part is we can choose 'good', and create 'good', and it's all up to us. Just having the scales tipped towards good most of the time is all that is necessary. These are the messages in the Bible. The concepts are there, and very simple. The concepts apply on in multiple levels, such as macro and cosmological, or daily personal to lifetime personal events.
I believe God was trying to point out that he gave us free will, and that means 'our world' is the result of 'our choices'. The environment around us is a long term crap shoot, where change is the only constant, and is mainly there to 'make you grow' (in more ways than one). God is not to blame for the 'society' we have created. Nor how we have altered the environment, good or bad. It's all up to us, and that, I believe, is a major 'concept' in the Bible that God wanted us to learn.