As I remind Christians, we know that Jesus rose from the dead because we take God’s Word as it is written.  Secular scientists have never shown that a dead body can be raised to life, but we don’t reinterpret the resurrection as a nonliteral event.  We take God’s Word as written.
Yet in Genesis, so many Christians accept secular scientists’ old-earth ideas and reinterpret the creation account.  In doing so they have unlocked a door—the door to undermining biblical authority.  Subsequent generations usually push that door open further.
For those involved in ministry of any kind, can I challenge you to recognize a crucial, modern application of Psalm 11:3, “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”  Applied to where we are today, the foundational issues are not ultimately creation and evolution, but God’s Word versus autonomous human reasoning.  This is the same battle that began in Genesis 3:1 when the serpent said to the woman, “Has God indeed said . . . ?”
That sums up what the creation/evolution battle is all about—it’s all about authority—God’s infallible Word or autonomous man’s fallible word!

(Ken Ham from Answers in Genesis)