I don't believe we can take Genesis word for word, please remember that Genesis states that God created light on the first day 'Genesis 1:3', however, we know that our light comes from the Sun, but he did not create the Sun and the Moon until the third day 'Genesis 1:14'. Let us not also forget that as the Earth orbits the Sun, creating the Sun after the Earth would mean the Earth would be sucked straight into the Sun as it would have no momentum. I think the Genesis book came through as a misunderstanding and a failure of translation by the human who wrote it (I'm actually not sure who wrote Genesis). Before people go arguing that the Earth is flat, let us not forget that there was a super lunar eclipse just recently, which is explained only by a round Earth blocking out the light of the Sun from the Moon.
Taking this into consideration, I think a lack of human understanding at the time the Genesis book was written led to an error in translation and a failure to convey God's word effectively, there is no reason a beautiful and omni benevolent God wouldn't have created the process of evolution or formed the Earth in the way that science describes in order to lead us to the day we live in. Why would an infinitely smart and beautiful God not have the skill and efficacy to make something so intricately and beautifully that everything led up to this, the stars, the sun, the moon. I would argue that God is capable of science. Further still, if God created us in his own image 'Genesis 1:27' and we are pursuing the knowledge of God himself (science) would that not be the same as eating from the tree of Knowledge? 'Genesis 3:6'. Perhaps we have not been misinterpreting this entire time, and that, we ourselves are God, warning ourselves not to pursue the Wisdom of Science, God's Wisdom. Let us not forget the details, God made us in his image, God warned us not to eat from the tree of knowledge, but we did, and disaster has struck has it not? The Earth is dying, our 'garden of Eden', our planet is dying because of our hunger for wisdom. The atom bomb which has killed millions, war, every year that we advance in science more and more die at its hands. Perhaps we are Adam and Eve and we are still taking our first bite of that apple, slowly. If we were to stretch out the timescale from 6 days to the scientific 13.7 billion years that led to this point (thats what science suggests, I'm not saying that it IS true). Then on that scale, the amount of time we've spent pursuing science (about 3000 years) if we divide that by the supposed age of the universe (by carbon dating) 13.7 billion / 3000 = 4.56 million we then take that and divive 6 days by that to give us the amount of time we have been eating the apple for according to the bible which come out at 1.32x10^-6 days which if you convert it to seconds comes out at 0.114048 Seconds. If you were to take the bible's idea of the creation of the Earth and stretch it to the length of the scientific explanation of the Earth, we have been eating that apple for 0.1 seconds. Our teeth are just starting to dig in. Something to think about. Again this is just some maths and a hypothesis. Let that sink in though, perhaps we've been thinking about it all wrong this whole time. I came up with all of this on the spot, didn't steal it from anywhere. Just some simple maths and comparison.
Evolution has been accepted by the smartest atheistic philosophers for a traceable 2 600 years / back to Greece 600bc. I am sure they have pushed their imaginations to the maximum and would have a replacement if there was. Thoughts of anything other then a Creator God being behind our universe has not entered my mind. Even when unsaved. It should be dead obvious that a Creator not limited by our laws of physics is needed. As Isaac Newton wisely stated:
