The problem I have with most creationism/ID advocates is that they're unwilling to hold themselves to the same standard that they demand the evolutionists adhere to. Or, to put it another way, they refuse to allow evolutionists to say "well, we just have faith that evolution is how it happened." I WISH I had the faith necessary to believe in creation or ID - last weekend I was watching The Ten Commandments and couldn't help but be amazed at a people who still had faith in God after 400 years of bondage. But I don't, so I have to believe in what science shows me is the way things happened.
That's not true at all. Your "god" is Time. My god is God. I have no problem you saying you have faith in Time. Given enough time, in this case billions and billions of years, your Time will create life from inorganic materials, carbon, oxygen, water, etcc...
My God simply created it. I've never hidden the fact that I believe in a God and intelligent design.
Life as we know it is similar in many respects. Apes are like dogs and dogs are like humans and humans are like snakes, etcc... we all move and breath in similar fashion, we breath oxygen, we need to eat, and we need to poop. This is a design that I believe God created.
I'm not a literal believer however. I don't believe Adam and Eve are representative of two human beings. In fact, if you read Genesis when God sent Cain (Adam and Eve's son) on his way, the Bible says that "Cain knew his wife". What??? Where did his wife come from? It makes no mention of God creating anyone other than Adam and Eve and they having two sons, Cain and Abel.
My belief being that Genesis is God telling us in the simplest way possible for the people of that time period to understand the beginnings of time. I'm not so sure they could comprehend eons and eons of time, so to make it simpler, 7 days.