Well, heck... I may as well just get this out of the way early.
I like science. I believe science. I love and believe God as well. And yes I can do both.
Let's look one of at the hottest, most divisive issues between the religious and scientific communities: Creationism vs The Big Bang.
Look at the progression of creation in Genesis 1. God said "Let there be light" and there was... how is that any different than the Big Bang Theory? Day Two - continents and oceans form. Day Three - Vegetation. Day Four - Stability of the earth's rotation. Day Five - Fish and birds. Day Six - Meat! This progression parallels the theorized physical progression the bulk of your astrophysicists propose, only the scentific community measures this progression in billions of years rather than six days.
But who is to say how long these "days" were during the creation? It wasn't until Day Four that days, nights and seasons were established and regulated (which I called "Stability of the earth's rotation" above), so the 24-hour standard of a day is not particularly likely.
The Bible had to be written so humans could understand it. Early humans understood "days" - "epochs" were a bit above them. Days, like epochs, have beginnings and ends with busy, shiny parts in the middle, so calling these epochs "days" makes sense. The Bible is full of inexact parallels to aid dipshits like us wrap our puny brains around larger concepts - why not open with one?
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