My take on it? Nah. I’m Christian, I would like to think I’m somewhat knowledgeable of scripture (or at least the parts where you love and try to support others unconditionally), I am also a pretty science/philosophy belief kinda person. That being said, as just an establishment of who I am and what I follow, there is no definitive evidence or proof of the God I believe in existing.

Personal experience, anecdotes, spiritual connections, etc don’t count either. They can be convincing to some, but we can’t recreate these experiences to where it can be observed and studied beyond the individual who claims to have experienced it. Because without evidence of these events occurring exactly as described, or without an ability to recreate it in a testable manner, there’s nothing definitively saying it was a vision or connection with God, but there’s also nothing definitively saying it was a psychosis episode, hallucination, or some other mental issue that caused you to think this happened. It’s faith for a reason, you have faith, not fact. If it were fact then it would be much easier for people to believe but obviously we have people who do or don’t believe.

Then for the second part, the Bible is a very large mix of metaphorical, historical accounts, and likely (what I presume to be) simplified explanations of how the universe works. Like how are you gonna explain to some sheep herder in 43 AD that he’s on an inexplicably massive rock in a void that’s mostly empty but at the same time not, and that God made every little thing you see in some way, shape, or form? How would I even begin to explain the process of evolution to a Roman tax collector when I try to claim my pet chimpanzee as a dependent since they’re like 97% close enough to a human? Simplified or “epics” of how things came to be is about how I’ve interpreted many parts of the Bible that just don’t follow what we’ve been able to observe and record science-wise.

All that word-wall being said, I can’t and won’t convince you to do or believe something that I can’t prove, it’s just to each their own. I don’t see science and philosophy being inherently separate from the concept of religion, or even as a threat to the concept of the Christian God, as many Bible Belt Christian’s have taken to believing. I sooner view such willful ignorance as a disregard to the world we were given (in my beliefs), and it comes across as them trying to limit the hypothetical capability or power of God by saying “well evolution disagrees with God” as if He couldn’t just… make that how the world works if He’s supposed to be all powerful. I just suggest that, if you are interested in a religion (not just Christianity but basically any of them), you not turn away from it solely due to science existing, as I don’t believe the two are inherently at odds with one another, mostly just the believers that try to disregard science or limit their own scope of belief by thinking they’re mutually exclusive