Beautifully composed, Terry. It deserves a wide audience.
Although creationists make an issue of attacking evolution, it is rare to see their alternative, the Bible creation story, scrutinized so well. Your article describes excellently everything missing in the first passages of the Bible in light of what we now know about the nature of the universe.
One of my weapons is to ask creationists how it is that god made night and day on the first day, but waited until the fourth day to create the Sun (to accompany the day) and the Moon (to accompany the night - the author obviously had little idea about the moon phases).
Apparently we're supposed to throw out every modern textbook on Geology, Astronomy and Evolutionary Biology and replace it with a few prosaic passages of a story written thousands of years ago
Yours in having an open mind - but not letting the part of your brain that deals in reason fall off.
Drew