I’m not a bibical scholar to describe all the ways we can read scripture, but I see many possibilities:
Christological, literal or allegorical, historical, scientific, cultural context, poetic, metaphorical, allegorical, and probably many more.
Psalm 104 is perhaps a good example. If you accept evolutionary origins, you are pretty much forced into a belief (unless someone can show me otherwise) that the flood was a literal, but local event (I suppose someone could think it was not literal either, but that’s an extremely low view of scripture IMO)
But if you view the flood as global, you get to pick out all the historical, scientific, and cultural details in this Psalm that I think you’d have to ignore with other interpretations:
But I do agree that for many with a YEC their focus has been on defending Genesis 1 as a literal, historical, and scientific text, and sometimes that means missing out on other layers of meaning, perhaps poetic, and metaphorical. So I can see that you’d find your faith to be strengthened when you came to appreciate the texts in other ways. Mostly I’d love the scientific, historical fight to be behind us, so we could be reading it all of these ways together
