Extreme religious beliefs are a perfect example of tribalism: the mental processes of people who don't actually decide what to believe, they just parrot whatever is most convenient for them based on their social circle

There's scientific creationism these days.

IMO, time is a lot more compressed than people think. The bible offers most if not all the answers that science cannot. When it comes to the ice age, fossils and dinosaurs and stuff like that, I think Noah's flood is the most relevant topic.

I'm no expert. I'm not here to argue, just offer my thoughts and things I've studied. The basic idea is that Noah's flood pretty much wiped out everything on earth. This results in fossils, rock layers, the reason human history can only be traced back 6000 years, etc

If you're curious I would look up Noah's flood vs ice age, etc

I'm not really religious and I don't know the answers, but I'll give you some relevant info that I know.

A lot of evolutionary science is based on lies and fraud. For example there are no complete dinosaur fossils like you see in the movies. It's always little tiny fragments that they piece together from different locations. Same with all of the links between primates and upright walking people. All of those bones are pieced together through pure guesswork based on presuppositions. First they make their conclusions, then they make the evidence fit.

So if I don't have enough faith to believe the biblical creation story, I have even less faith in the modern day archeological fraud passing itself off as science.

We believe that when God created Adam, he created him with apparent age. That is, created him as an adult, rather than as an infant, or even a single living human cell, that had to grow to adulthood.

If God can do that with Adam, he can do that with the entirety of the universe, creating it with the appearance of age and history, the same way an author creates the characters and setting of their book with a back-story that may or may not ever be mentioned within the pages of that book.

Also, a lot of the events we think must have happened billions of years ago may be made on bad assumptions about how to judge time and the fossil record.

God created and wipes out when needed (the flood thingy and such). That would explain fossils and stuff.

My parents were (50% still are 😆)in this mindset and I grew up with it. The bible gives easy answers were science might fail to provide us with such. There might be answers, but not always easy. In other cases we need more time for science to prove things.

I don't believe in the almighty creator, but there's also true stories in the bible. I just doubt that the people writing it had the understanding of what was happening around and before them (misinterpretation, adding or leaving out stuff etc.)