I love the creation story. It's just such an awesome example of just how big and powerful and omnipresent God is. I think I like it so much because it used to be a source of confusion for me, maybe even doubt. But the more I read it, and meditated about it, and read about it, the more I saw how contemporary knowledge really only gives us a tiny insight into how God did the things that centuries ago he told us he did.
"3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." That verse always moves me. I think about how much we struggle to understand light, its constant speed, its relation to matter/energy, the nature of photons, etc.
To me, creation is the biggest witness to God outside the church and communion of believers.
One can adopt a literal view of Genesis as do many fundamentalist Protestant movements, or one can entertain various scientific theories. Personally I take the position of agnostic on the seven day creation as literal. It could be it could not be. The creedal statement is necessary for salvation, the how can be left to science.
I have a similar view. It may have been 6 literal earthly days for creation. With God all things are possible. But if the science gives us clues that these "days" or "periods" were [m/b]illions of years, well, what is that but a day to an omnipresent God? I think that's reasonable. But I've been told that shows a lack of faith on my part in not believing what is written ....
-rvb