The Genesis account is scientifically viable.

Alright, thanks for accepting Con. In this round, I will display my interpretation of Genesis 1:1-2:3. Con is then welcome to critique it. I may go in to the Hebrew that Genesis was first written in some instances. Day 1 "1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." The Hebrew written here is "Bereisheet bara Elohim et hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz" The Hebrew word for created is "bara." What interesting about this verb is that it is always written with its subject as God, (Elohim). This implies that this type of creation is unique to God. The phrase "hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz" was a Hebrew figure of speech meaning everything in the universe. It is similar to a compound word in English. The words "dragon" and "fly" take on a totally different meaning when put together. I believe that this verse is consistent with Big Bang Cosmology. In fact, I believe that this verse directly refers to the Big Bang. The universe had a beginning; therefore something must have caused it to begin. That something may have been God. This verse also states that the earth had already been created. This means that this verse covers time from the Big Bang all the way until the formation of the solar system and earth. http://en.wikipedia.org... (Its Wikipedia, I know, it is well cited though.) "2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters." Verse two takes a turn. The frame of reference dramatically shifts from the entire universe, to the surface of the earth, "the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters." This frame of reference remains the same through t the rest of the chapter. This verse also establishes the conditions of the earth. "[D]arkness is over the face of the deep." The earth is wrapped in thick dense clouds that are making the water covered surface completely dark. I do believe there is a general agreement among scientists that the earth was once covered in water. This is very likely since water is the third most abundant molecule in the universe. "3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day." I believe that this verse refers the ancient collision of a mars sized object with the young earth. This gigantic collision would have blasted away some of the life-preventing could of darkness and increased the size of the earth to hold a decent atmosphere. Light became visible on the surface of the earth. Night and day could now be distinguished from one another. Day 2 6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." 7 And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. 8 And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day." Water vapor separates from the atmosphere and falls to earth. The ocean and atmosphere are now separate. Many Bible translations, such as the NIV, translate the word "heaven" (Hebrew word "shamayim") as sky. Keep in mind that the Hebrew language does not have the large vocabulary that English does. Most Hebrew words have multiple meanings. Day 3 "9 And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.11 And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so. 12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day." Many skeptics point out that fossils animal life predate fossils of plant life. However, the Hebrew word used here for vegetation, "deshe," can refer to any green photosynthetic life on land. This would include ancient cyanobacteria and other photosynthetic bacteria which appear very early in the fossil record. (http://www.ancient-hebrew.org...) The Hebrew words for seed, trees, and fruit (zera, es, and pri) can also mean "semen" or "the embryos of any plant species, " "any large plant containing woody fiber," and "the food and or embryos produced by any living thing." Keep in mind that genesis does not say that all plant life was created at this moment. For the sake of the character limit, I will not be showing the direct verses anymore. You can view them here https://www.biblegateway.com... Day 4 Verses 14-19 During the fourth day the sun and moon appear in the sky as the photosynthetic life was consuming water vapor and carbon dioxide while volcanic activity on earth began to slow down and stabilize. Genesis says God "made" the stars, sun and moon and the fourth day, (the Hebrew used here is the word "asa") however, this verb does appear in an appropriate form for denoting a past action. Verses 17 and 18 say that God set them, past tense, in the sky. The first few verses of Genesis also imply that the sun moon and stars were made prior to the fourth day. Day 5 Verses 20-23 As I am writing this I notice an apparent problem. The birds. The Hebrew word used here for bird is "op." I believe this can also refer to insects as well. Perhaps God created some but not many birds and not many of those first birds were fossilized or have been found as fossils. But the sea creatures created on this day do not cause a problem that I am aware of. The first signs of life found in the fossil record are creatures of the ocean if I recall correctly. https://www.blueletterbible.org... Day 6 Verses 24-31 God creates land animals and humans on this day. You must keep in mind that the Genesis account of creation is not to be taken like a scientific text book. It is a religious book about God, not science. However, I do find Genesis to line up extremely well with what we have discovered in our world. Also, God did not necessarily create only the life listed in this chapter. He created life at other times not talked about in Genesis, like the dinosaurs, hominids, various plants, and other life forms. I believe this model fits within the fossil record quite nicely. This model explains why species and even whole phyla seem to characteristically appear abruptly. As you have probably seen, I do not hold that the days of Genesis are literal 24 hour days. Rather, they are long eras of time. The Hebrew word for day that is used here, yom, can mean a full 24 hour day, the 12 hour period of sun light each day, or just a vague period of time. http://sententias.org... I am getting most of my information from a ministry called Reasons To Believe, and from a book called Navigating Genesis by a man named Hugh Ross, the founder of Reasons To Believe. Here"s a link to an article. RTB"s articles can explain what I have said and more. I"m sure they do it quite a bit better than I do as well. http://www.reasons.org... Sorry this was so long haha