My Dad kind of fell into this sort of thinking for a while in the 90s. The problem is, he taught his kids to do their own research, and we did. In what seems to be the rare case with my Dad, when it came to Dinosaurs and Young Earth Creation in general, reason's beat out a literal interpretation of the Bible. Mostly because, like I said he taught his kids to do their own research.
Eventually, he'll pick up on how at least two of us are atheists, now. Well, one and a half. My half brother's technically an agnostic deist, but that's close enough.