Don't know what Rita would say, but as one who believes that the earth is about 4 billion years old, because that's what the best and most solid evidence tells us, and as one who also has no problem with evolution, I'd argue that for most of the time that humans have existed, we were one with nature; a part of nature, acting on instinct rather than with any notion of good or evil. At some point, humans developed the capacity to discern notions such as right or wrong. We were no longer just a part of nature, we had the capacity to manipulate nature. Once that discernment and capacity became possible, we inevitably made bad choices - thus, the fall. I accept the Genesis account of creation as symbolic of that process of human development. It becomes problematic when we assume that it has to be taken as "fact" rather than as "truth" - the two are not the same thing. The Bible is neither a history nor a science text book. It is a divinely inspired (in my view, both in the sense that God inspired its authors to write, and that God inspired later generations to preserve what was written) collection of writings about human interaction with and perception of God. And, in any event, as has already been pointed out, young earth creationism is a human construct not explicitly supported in the Bible.
