I look at it a little differently.

Science is only as reliable as the people who are analyzing it. Those would be flawed human beings.

By that same token, the Bible was written (and RE-WRITTEN) by flawed humans who undoubtedly were taking creative liberties in at least some places, in order to push their agendas and indoctrinate their future readers.

I'm a Pagan (polytheist), but my faith exists in broad strokes. So, in other words, I don't literally believe in the Greek Olympians as depicted in Greek mythology...but I believe it's likely that those myths were loosely based on actual supernatural and divine truths that early civilizations witnessed. The concept of multiple deities coexisting within our universe makes the most sense to me. That doesn't mean I can see them, point them out, or summon them by name.

I believe the same is probably true of the Bible. Some events from the Bible may have happened similarly -- or abstractly -- to how they were portrayed in Scripture. But events could have been reordered or reimagined. The timeframes, as you have pointed out, could be thousands of years apart from each other...not having taken place in as narrow of a timeframe as the Bible's authors would have us believe.

We'll never really know...and a lot of people seem to have a problem accepting that. I don't. I'm content with NOT KNOWING.