I thought I Was answering your question. And I've given your question a lot of thought -- been on various other Forums where the subject has come up. And it's an important question.
The example I shared was with comparing 'scientific' evidence with Genesis creation. Theistic evolution is a compromise between macro evolution and Genesis creation.
Do you believe the Genesis 6 day 24hr days of creation? Or do you believe the day/age theory. As in the passage that says that a thousand years are as a day and a day as a thousand years? That passage is simply saying that there is no 'time' with God. God created 'time' for us / mankind.
There are lots of fields of science incorporated into evolution. The theory of evolutionary development says that over millions of years that sea / water life developed to be partly land and partly water and then entirely land. That somehow a single-celled ameba divided and became two cells which continued to divide and eventually became 'whatever'. Another theory is that there once was a mass of primordial 'soup' that had just the right combo of elements to develop.
Science says that the origins of life aren't known -- but only how 'life' developed into what we have 'today'. My question has always been -- How can 'something' develop without a known origin. The main 'problem' is that 'science' does Not want to give God the credit For starting creation. So People have tried to come up with 'something' to define the starting point.
If you or I all of a sudden found a baby in a blanket on our doorstep, we would not simply pick up that baby and start taking care of it. Because a woman somewhere gave birth to that baby. Maybe she doesn't know who the father is, but she still had help getting that baby. Her egg got mixed with male ***** and the baby on your / my doorstep was the result. So we call the police and they start investigating the source of that life.
The same thing with Our life. We are the result of our parents and going back in history we can trace our heritage. I'm part Swedish and German. People beget people. The same with animals -- they beget each other -- generation by generation. So for some 'experts' to try to go back a few million years to where there was a split in an animal tree. That hominoids were a break-off from a strain of chimps or whatever is plain foolishness. A person can Google evolution and find a great deal of info on how it all came to be. It all sounds / looks very professionally done / organized. And someone went to a lot of time and trouble to do all of that organizing. Which is kind of a shame when a person can go directly to Genesis and learn all about the first man and woman. The when , where's and how's of it all.
But lots of people would rather take the word of a lot of scientists than acknowledge a Being who is over mankind. 'We' tend to want to be our own 'god' , make our own decisions in life and whatever happens, happens. And when 'we' die -- either we simply decay back into nothingness -- which is correct. and that's all there is OR there is an afterlife where everyone ends up in 'heaven'. It's our 'soul' that lives on after our human body dies and goes back to being part of earth. God Did create Adam from the dust of the ground and breath life into him and he became a living soul. OR -- in that afterlife there is either heaven or Hell. And That lasts Forever.
Even in the Old Testament there are various gods and goddesses who are named and worshiped. That's why God told the people in Exodus -- if you're going to worship a 'god', worship the One who Created them. The very beginning of the Ten Commandments.
But getting back to the Bible -- there are many different kinds of literature in the Bible. Some poetry, some history, some stories, lots of symbolism with lots of truth.
There are lots of people , who, when reading, decide that 'that' can't possibly have happened -- so they disregard 'that' part -- or they don't like what another part says -- so, they disregard 'that'.
God has given us His Word for a Reason and 'we' need to be reading it with that mind-set. His Word is Alive and is Convicting which is what keeps some of us out of it.