I personally never had any intellectual conflicts between what is written in the Bible and what scientists were saying. When in doubt, I always deferred to the Bible and told myself that scientists did not always have all the pieces to the puzzle in the first place. Often, years later, this would prove true in that new discoveries or scientific testing techniques would once again, verify what was written in the Bible. I also believed that when it came to time lines and exact methodology, the Bible wasn't always overly detailed in these areas. A day to God could represent many millennia and HOW exactly He created something could have easily been a much longer process than what we imagined. So, even while studying science, I never had conflicts. In fact, the more I studied, the more I could see the hand of God at work from the incredible creation of the universe right down to the way the human body works at the cellular level. It is all amazing and it all points to God in my way of thinking.
The fact, however, that even more scientific evidence has surfaced to confirm God as creator and that the Bible's account of his creative works is accurate, delights me. The more archeologists dig, and geologists test, and other scientists apply their tests, the more evidence amasses that the Bible is more than just a collection of stories to serve as a moral guide for mankind. I'll never forget that day at work where a colleague was disputing that the Bible was just a collection of stories. So, I asked him what he thought about Sodom and Gomorrah. He said it was a moral cautionary tale and all fiction. When I told him that scientists had actually found Sodom, found the round balls of sulfur, carbon dated them back to the correct time, and that tests showed they were thousands of degrees hot when they rained down on the city, he was stunned. Here was clear scientific evidence of an account in the Bible, and it proves that it happened, just like the great flood and Noah's ark, and dozens of other findings
So, whether it is the creation of the universe or the creation of man, the Bible still stands as my source for truth. Science lags behind a lot of the time, but eventually it catches up to show that we can trust what is written. And why shouldn't we trust it since it is, after all, God's word? And what should we do when in doubt? Resort to faith of course. Faith, faith and more faith.