A declaration made by Christ sits foremost in my mind, found in Mark 13:23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things. (The next verse Christ quotes Isaiah 13:10.)
So before one jot or tittle of the so called New Testament ever got placed on animal skins or plant material all things had already been foretold. Genesis which means 'In the beginning', was also made part of the Gospel, by the writer John in John 1:1.
We have literal physical evidence left here on God's green earth of a long history. Evolution is a theory of how we as flesh beings developed over the long haul, while most of the creation theories reject the time element, and promote 'evolution' in quick time.
Now personally, I some thirty years ago after being churched with the doctrine of 'church' worship, meaning the doctrine developed was for the purposed devotion, love, and offerings to men of and in the church. Then one day out of the wild blue I got told that the 'church' was NOT right. The next dozen or so years I was totally turned off on 'religion' and asked for to never be self deceived or deceived by flesh man again.
Theories 'evolve' but the origins of life have never been given over to the process of evolution. How can I say this. Well simply Christ. The continual non-stop from Adam and Eve to the birth of Christ was controlled and protected. As is declared in Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the LORD Himself shall give you a sign; "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. (Immanuel means GOD with us.)
That declaration alone removes all possibility of eons ago a hot steamy pot of primordial soup wherein a single cell got all hot and bothered and reproduced itself and eventually got us to where we are today in these flesh bodies.
As nearest as I can tell the evolution theorists reject 'creation' because of the claims of the 'time' element. And the accusation is made that young earthers take the Bible literally. Wellll The Bible nowhere declares, states, or hints this earth's beginning is 'datable'. So that accusation of Bible literalists is empty and false given what the Bible literally declares, states and hints.
Further more the Bible describes two different flood, for two different purposes. Genesis 1:2 is where the first flood is described and the second one is described in Genesis 6. The dino world could not have still been in existence at the second flood, else Noah would have been required to have housed a pair of each of those creatures as he was instructed. Yet there is no doubt these creatures existed as their remains are found all over this earth.
IIPeter 3, the whole chapter explains, instructs the student in how God keeps time.
Pure science is not in disagreement with Genesis, or any other Scripture. But, those in 'control' of the creation of theories for the sole purpose of rejecting the Creator, created their own so called scientific methodology that survives outside the realm of reality.
A couple of 'theories' or claims that the left have developed for the purpose of their survival are 'man made' global warming. See apparently the generation warning of 'man made' global ice age must have retired to dementia farms and a new generation using the same scientific methodology has been birthed.
This latest craze intends to wrap all fours pillars of a functioning society around their latest prophecies. Using education they can raise up a willing populace to elect the like minded politicians and get their prophecies blessed as being Nostradamus's, and the economy will evolved into a stage of green energy...
Thankfully for all God's children He and He alone will judge the intent on His perfect scales.
You claimed “We have literal physical evidence left here on God’s green earth of a long history.”
Or do we simply have a ‘consensus paradigm’ problem from only the last 2 centuries where many have accepted long ages as fact when there are so many natural clocks [101] indicating magnitudes less time has elapsed since creation than the favored 2 [radio-isotopes, & starlight] of modern day geology and evolution
~ which BTW caused many otherwise ‘orthodox’ believers to begin subscribing to either some mysterious un-defined gap theory in Gen 1:2 and/or theistic long ages combination of evolution / creation.
Sorry no sale here, even if you could explain away these young-ages natural clocks:
101 Evidences for a Young Age of the Earth...And the Universe
http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth
Here’s another very simple question for you since you take most of the Bible at face value. When God referred Job to behemoth in Job 40 or 41 ‘with a tail like a cedar’ was God asking Job about an animal that Job had no knowledge of or was it because at some point after the fall mankind [and Job] shared the Earth with dinosaurs?