Thank you for your long and well-thought out reply.
It is my experience that most creationists care little for real knowledge, and have no compunction about spreading lies about scientists. Lying about people, aka bearing false witness, is a sin.
Ironically, the ridiculous stories that creationism mongers (like Ken Ham) concoct to try to give a scientific veneer to the creation story of Genesis are as unbiblical as they are unscientific. Yet they try to pass themselves off as experts in both Christianity and science.
I try to understand what motivates people who fall for pseudoscience (of any type, not just creationism), but I fail.
Another one I have, as I am not an expert in neither science nor theology, is this;
If the biblical account of creation is a metaphor, why would Jesus Christ in scripture refer to it as if it were fact?
I would use Mark 10:6, and I quote the words of Christ "But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female"
Am I to believe that Christ was speaking metaphorically here and indeed did not Himself create the earth and all in it as described in Colossians 1:16,17?