I have nothing to back this up so take it for what it is worth.
If you read the bible from cover to cover, you read of creation and destruction, over and over. Usually God leaves a remnant to move his plan forward. Even the creation we live in now is destined for destruction.
When you look at the geologic history of this planet, we see creation and destruction. Entire kingdoms of species disappear and are replaced with new. The actions we read about in the Bible are very similar to the actions we see recorded in the Earth.
I have complete faith that the truth put forward in the Bible is literally true but we infer so much that we cannot understand how the truth in the Bible reconciles with the truth seen in fossils and geology.
When we have the opportunity to see the universe from the perspective of God, we will see that he has given us the truth in the Bible.
I have faith that we are descended from Adam. I am not threatened by the fact that there appears to be creatures that looked similar to me before Adam and there are similarities in the structures of animals and my structure, we are all God's creation.
I am a strange breed that believes in the literal truth of Genesis and in the study of evolution without seeing a contradiction.
I usually don't discuss this as it totally freaked out my preacher and nonbelievers dismiss it out of hand.
“God gave you a brain - use it. You don’t have to surrender reason to interpret the Bible in the light of current science.”
You most certainly must surrender reason. How else do you explain faith? How else do you explain Christ dying and rising from the dead?