twohumble...
To try to squeeze out of the Hebrew something that fits with supposed evolutionary/long ages sequences is truly what is bizarre. You are trying to tell us that EVERY Bible translator has the material wrong! Why do I have a problem with that???
Second, even Hubble himself doubted the redshift was indicative of universal expansion. Since then, Tifft, Guthrie, Napier, and a number of others have shown that the redshift measurements are quantized and this absolutely denies tying the redshift with possible universal expansion. And the redshift is the ONLY bit of evidence they have that the universe might still be expanding. In other words, if the redshift is the result of expansion (the Doppler effect), then the universe is not expanding smoothly, but in fits and starts.
Contrary to your ideas, this is not the steady state idea. For the universe WAS expanded, and very rapidly, during the first minutes and days of creation week. But it is no longer expanding.
As far as a cold start to the earth, you can scream and yell all you want, but the Bible says "waters." This only disagrees with some theorists and a lot of textbooks, but it does not disagree with the data itself.
There is no indication that God is beginning the narrative after anything. The Bible starts with "IN THE BEGINNING". The Hebrew context of verse two is a focusing of the narrative, not an indication of a lapse in time. In the beginning, the earth was formless and void and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. God knows how to communicate. He also knows how to tell the truth. It is modern science which is deciding God doesn't know what He is talking about. However the data do not disagree with Genesis, only with the long ages ideas.
You say I'm giving Christians a bad name in science. I don't think so. I'm the one with the data and you are the one with the ranting...
How far back are we looking to the edges of the universe? About 8,000 years' worth. This disagrees with the Masoretic text, but agrees entirely with the Alexandrian LXX, translated hundreds of years before by Hebrew scholars -- and was the one Christ and the Apostles and early church fathers all quoted from.
I don't know if the sun was created or 'lit' the fourth day, but I do know it is a first generation star and much younger than the second generation stars which exist near the center of galaxies. It was not shining before the fourth day.
Science, by the way, was not created by God. It is man's attempts to find out what God has done. Man's logic and desires to eliminate God get in the way, but still they try.