The parallel comparison of Humphreys' and Gray's views on Genesis 1 and Exodus 20 is most instructive. When one's mind is liberated from a mandatory young- universe mindset, there is greater potential for discovery. We are properly repelled by the theory of evolution, a concept which requires an old universe WITH an old geology, but we ought not to react by requiring a young universe if the Scriptures have not defined its youth. The concern of Chapter 9 is the effect that the misinterpretation of Genesis has made on sincere people to constrain a belief in theistic evolution or progressive creation by reaction to young-universe creationism. Evidence is not the problem.
Blindness is the problem.
Evolutions hitchikes on science. It is a preposterous hypothesis, carried along by good, established science, free of charge. This is not to say that evolutionists never provide any good contributions to science. Theistic evoluion attempts to marry a tiger to a lamb. To insist that the entire cosmos was created during six days tends to promote the marriage of tiger and lamb.