The question for the Christian is then - What is the best interpretive framework for any given passage of scripture. I am convinced that the best interpretation of the first chapters of Genesis is a literary one in which neither time nor chronology is part of the intended message. Finally, I fully and unhesitatingly accept the doctrine of creation. God is the creator of all things and nothing would exist without God's continually willing it to be. God is intimately and actively involved in all natural processes.
Every natural process is as much an act of a personal creator as any miracle.
Furthermore, I believe that God's existence can be known in the creation through faith. However, scientific observation provides no proof of the existence of a creator God, indeed it cannot. Neither does scientific description, however complete, provide any argument against a creator. Since God acts through process, evolution and the theology of creation are perfectly compatible. In fact, I see them as positively reinforcing.