You sir, make a mockery of Christianity and the Bible.
For most of the last 2000 years the Church has been the leading force for scientific research. To better know God, we need to also know His creation. It brings insight beyond what we can get without it.
God gave us an intellect and curiosity - to not use them to our full to explore and expand our knowledge of the universe is wasting one of the biggest gifts He gave us.
So tell me - which Genesis story is correct? Because Genesis chapter 1 has the earth, nature, and plants all created before man, over the course of 6 days. Yet Genesis 2 says that it was all created in one day, and that man was created before the plants.
So which is right? One must be wrong...
Maybe the Bible is a spritual/moral guide for life with God and with each other, and not a textbook? If you think otherwise, then answer the question about the Creation stories.
Unless you take every literal word of the Bible (which translation?) as the inerrant Word of God, much like Muslims believe for the Koran? I believe the teachings and principles of the Bible are inerrant, but the actual words themselves? That’s what separates us from the Muslims - our understanding that God is not simply constrained to some words, handed down verbally over centuries and translated a dozen times.
You sir, make a mockery of yourself by your ridiculous statements, you do not know me or my relationship with God so how can you judge me? As far as I'm concerned, this is idol conservation and I will have none of it!
conservation = conversation