What can I say?Other than Missouri's state nickname fits me to a tee!
Are you a person of faith? If so how do you reconcile those two ideas? I have to tell you that, eventually, the one would have to impede on the other. After all, how do you know the Bible is authoritative?
Easy!
If there IS evidence available, and I choose to accept it; what used to be Faith is now knowledge.
If I choose to ignore it, I become like so many Catholics: relying on the assumed veracity of the Church.