Since God is eternal, any measure of our time compared to Him is divided by infinity, therefore approaching zero. So whether the universe is only 10000 years old or 13.6 billion, either one divided by infinitely is essentially instantaneous from God’s “viewpoint.”
I am fine with viewing time and creation from both scientific and theological viewpoints. For instance, heliocentrism is established by science since it can be shown that the Earth revolves around the sun. Yet theologically, Earth can be seen as theocentric, the center of God’s creation since it is home to man made in His image. In this sense, the Sun is a servant to the Earth, providing its heat, light, and gravitational pull. So just as the Church, the Bible, and Christ are fully human and fully divine, Earth in the same manner is fully natural yet theologically God’s centerpiece of Creation.
Likewise, the earth may naturally be 4.5 billion years old; but theologically, from man’s perspective of acknowledging the Earth as God’s creation, it is much younger. Therefore Earth as Earth, i.e. a planet consisting of elements and minerals formed in a specific way by God, is billions of years old. But Earth as man’s home until heaven is much younger, perhaps the 6000-10000 years a reading of Genesis can calculate. The theological perspective, marked by man’s awareness of himself amidst a home created by a higher being, is much younger than the planet’s scientifically calculated age.
That said, I hold to the special creation of our first parents. Any passage in Scripture mentioning creation of Adam implies this, along with the teaching of the Fathers. In other words, the consensus of Scripture and Tradition never implies some type of pre-human getting “infused” with a soul. Furthermore, if God can create an entire physical universe out of nothing, I’m pretty sure He could have created man from the dust of the earth.
This!