As a younger Individual I was fine with a 7 day creation and was quite content with God accomplishing things in that manner.
I still am but in the intervening years I have done many 1000's of hours of geological and other fieldwork.
There is a record written in the rocks and fossils and now being discovers in genomes, that reveals a very consistent picture.
I am also fine with the eternal superseding the temporal however it is my opinion that the temporal and physical is modeled after the eternal and the spiritual and that by studying the temporal and physical we can gain further insights into the spiritual and eternal.
Sacred writ and practice is filled with Forms, Shadows, Symbols, and Types.
I find great benefit in looking at things uncovered by science through the lens of Forms, Shadows, Symbols, and Types and visa versa.
RE: Were the seven days of creation in Genesis seven twenty four hour periods? - Delving a little deeper