You might be surprised at what you can learn by reading Genesis 1 for true statements. It may require looking at the original Hebrew to understand why some translations choose words with different meaning, and the translations are each correct. Genesis chapter one can be read from a "Big Bang" cosmological view, when viewed from God's chosen viewpoint of "hovering over the waters upon the surface of the Earth." The words typically translated "evening and morning" also translate as "chaos then order." The word typically translated as Earth also translates as earth and ordinary matter. Furthermore, these alternate translations and interptretations predate the scientific revolution. St. Augustine of Hippo in 330AD argued that based upon scripture alone that it was impossible to tell whether Genesis one was 24hr solar days or long ages. In 1250AD talmudic writer Moses ben Nachmanidies described God's creative acts in terms reminiscent of "Big Bang" cosmology. All three talmudic commentators describe Yaweh speaking creation into existence and Yaweh's Word writing the creation with black fire. This is not unlike Stephen Wineberg's view of the Big Bang beginning with a tremendous burst of information, or as the scriptures puts it "logos." The energy burst was some form of extremely hot plasma that was so gravitationally dense that light could not escape during the early inflationary period. Again, I think it is important to stress the use of prescientific revolution writings when interpreting scripture in light of modern science to ensure the interpretation has not been tainted by modern science. It seems perhaps more than coincidental that modern Big Bang theory was birthed out of the larger church through George LeMaitre a Jesuit preist in 1931 or earlier, and taught in writing by three greatest of the three talmudic rabbinic commentators Moses ben Nachmanidies in 1250AD. Its also worth noting the talmud is a written preservation of a millennia older oral teaching. The term Big Bang was a purely derisive term used be Nobel laurette Sir Fred Hoyle in 1952 on BBC in ridicule of LeMaitre's theory of the Primeval Atom that was a modification of his early Cosmic Egg theory. Scientist generally agree that the early inflationary period of universe exceeded the speed of light, even though science has no good hypothesis to explain how such a rapid expansion occured. I suggest judging the Bible and secular naturalistic explanations based upon their power or effect in society. Those that believe the Bible to a degree of practicing its doctrines as evidenced by paying tithe, attending church at least weekly, reading or studying scripture daily, and praying as a family daily have substaintially better outcomes in physical health, mental health, financial stability, graduation rates, criminality, STDs, and divorce than those that embrace naturalistic science apart from God.

Well not everything, mainly the Creation story in Genesis.