You said "God could very well have spoken the Universe into being in an instant, but is there a reason his story of creation takes 7 days? What is he teaching us?"

That's an easy one. If you knew your 10 commandments, you'd find the answer:

It still doesn't get round the problem of the character of of God. Given a choice between the God who created all things out of nothing, by the Word of His Power, over the space of 6 days a few thousand years ago, who created all things "Very Good", who created a world free from death pain and suffering, and a god who created things using Billions of years of death, pain, suffering, failure, extinction, which is the greater God? Which is more worthy of our worship, trust and adoration?

Do you believe the god you worship used death, pain, suffering and triumph of the strong over the weak to create?

Does the god you worship condemn us for expoiting the weak, vulnerable and poor?

How can your god care about our suffering if he used suffering and death to create us?

The Council of Carthage did not define the Cannon of Scripture, it recognised it. There is a HUGE difference.

Effeminate hair styles, hand bags, male make up, and yes even skirts are the new vogue for English men who 'fashionably' look like gays dressed for clubing in the late 90's.

We have a christian school with the best educational results and behaviour. The kids are immaculate in uniform...girls in skirts.

Another school had one girl complain about having to wear a skirt. Her mother was the real objecting feminist University Liberal. The school had skirts as its' uniform since its inception over 100 years ago without one complaint. BUT Her human rights were that she could wear trousers! The school immediately changed it's uniform policy to save being sued! That is the result of feminism which is Humanism and ant-God. Conform to the world as WE SEE IT.

A good test would be to ask our own pastor for evidences of personal answered prayer, God still answers in surprising ways. If Pastor is struck dumb then we have a problem

On the other hand, the Bible talks about the theif paying restitution. The theif is punished for theft by having to pay back his victim the full amount plus compensation.

Humanism uses force to make the criminal unproductive by incarcerating him.
The Bible would allow force to be used to make the criminal productive by forcing him to work if he was unwilling to pay his victim back.

Everywhere else in Europe is committing demographic suicide and where there is growth it is because imigrants (usually Muslims) are having children.

Humanism is "The Anti-God Religion of Death" (Ken Ham) and so of course they love homosexuality and hate big families.

Why is is that Evangelical Protestants in Europe and the USA only have as many children as the average Humanist? Why do the Catholics and Muslims love children and the future more than we do?

Your 'evidence' can be interpreted through an evolutionary hypothesis but it can also be explained because the ape and the Human have a common desighner.