“The church” is a stumbling block to belief because of its insistence on umbilical creation theories.
Biblical creation is laid out by understanding Jubilee calendar AND the Sabbath. Once we understand we are IN the Sabbath age, and the coming millennium IS the LORD’S Sabbath, we can see WHY science reveals six previous extinctions (the end of the previous seven “weeks”) and understand Jer 4:23-26 is a view of the end of the sixth age – before the recreation.
We also do a disservice to our apologetic by discounting the role of angels in creation – as their development with God’s direction parallels our own, and accounts for the “evolution” but with injections of new designs as God commands in Gen 1. Their involvement also explains how the involvement of fallen angels will soon so quickly again pervert creation AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH.