Anyone in doubt about the errant thinking on any campus in the US of A ought to read the course catalogs and the student paper. The freak show we think of as higher education is already so fraught with nutcase ideas there is hardly any room to condemn the beliefs of millions of normal, moral and productive people.
The Jewish opinion (I sensed everyone was dying to know ;-) is that it is all literally true, literally 6 days. Regarding science and Torah (Bible,) we know that “G-d looked into the Torah and created the world.” So since the Torah is the blueprint for all creation, there can be, in essence, no conflict between science and Torah. To resolve the seeming contradictions, check our: http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Over-Matter-Lubavitcher-Technology/dp/B000M1I68U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333249316&sr=8-1