Hi, I&W! Welcome to EvC, and I hope you have a good time here!
Sure, there's a dilemma, but it is, of course, of human manufacture. People wrote the Bible and spilled oceans of ink elaborating on what it means, and people gathered the bodies of knowledge we call science. If you compare those two camps, particularly from an "inerrantist" view, you find irresolvable conflicts. Flowering plants and grasses didn't precede animal life on land. Humans have been around rather longer than the 6000 to 10,000 years many inerrantists claim.
Now, as to whether I'm out to "win:" Yes. I am. I live in Texas, where or State Board of Education just adopted a directive that our high-school textbooks must mention "alternate scientific estimates for the age of the universe." That proposal came from the fundamentalist Christian faction on the Board. Can you, or anyone around here, name a viable, current "alternate scientific estimates for the age of the universe?" Anything significantly different from 13,700 million years?
I've got grandbabies entering the Texas school system. I want them to be exposed to good science in science classes. I want them to be exposed to good literature in literature classes. What I don't want, and what I'm fighting already, is for them to be exposed to superstition based on some good literature masquerading as science.
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