this is an old argument
I agree with some of what you say. I can see your point of view. the idea of God "running round buryin' fossils..'he he, I'm a trickster God!'" (in the words of Bill Hicks) is a bit odd. In fact Genesis 1 and 2 give different accounts of the order of creation. Already there would appear to be error within the first 2 books of the Bible. How can this be God's Word you say if He is all-powerful and there are contradictions in it? IMHO Genesis isn't completely literal and linear in its account of the creation of the world. I mean, why wouldn't God, who is all-powerful, just snap his fingers and create the whole lot in a nanosecond? Why take 7 days? the fact is it's written like that to make it understandable and digestable. We don't really know exactly how it happened, and it doesn't matter *at all*. I can't stress this enough. no one will be convinced Christianity is the way to live via scientific arguments. Conversely, you will never ever convert anyone to atheism who believes in God and knows in themselves that He exists and cares about us on the value of some scientific data or theory. The Bible isn't a scientific text book. Science can always ask and answer "how" but it cannot answer "why" which is where Christianity steps in.