Absolutely! but the pitfall wrt creationism is in giving science the benefit of the doubt, rather than YHWH - It is hard enough to comprehend the immensity of creating a human thumb in one day, not to mention the whole of everything we know, and far, far beyond to the very ends of the universe and the farthest reaches of time in six days! So it is natural enough to be skeptical of the event, without the many proofs that science puts forth. But then, my God has a greater understanding than all the scientists that have ever lived. Sometimes it is hard to remember that.
And if I allow myself to wax allegorical in the first verses, what mischief will I cause by the end of the Book? And you know that to be true, I think, because that is exactly what most folks do, and the mighty words of YHWH are daily reduced to Platonic (or Socratic) drivel.
If one does not take care to preserve the structures defined in the Bible, one can make it say just about anything.
Yes, if God had of told me that he created the heavens and earth and every thing in it in six literal days I would certainly believe it but I did not get that information from him I just get it from people who believe that is what he said.
For years I have denied that oil was a fossil fuel coming from dead dinosaurs simply because it does not make sense to me.
I have showed my disdain for that idea right here on free republic but do you think the literal six day creationist people will agree with me? no.
Why not? the earth has not changed hardly at all in just six thousand years, I know of no great world upheavals that would put dinosaur remains thousands of feet under ground all over the world, yet it is pretty much believed by even the people who believe in the six literal day creation.
The scientists( some of them Christian ) have found dinosaur bones all over the world, I have saw dinosaur tracks, yet the Bible only mentions the liathian and the behemoth and for all we know they are most likely still with us today if we knew what they were.
So how about the dinosaurs who every one seems to think went ten thousand feet under ground to make oil.
Where were they at in Adams time and how many of them did Noah put on the ark?
We still have the clean and unclean animals God mentioned so why not the dinosaurs?
I believe they may have been extinct or close to it by Adams time.