Jamie, your position has obviously led you to have a low opinion of the authority of God's Word. I can see the evidence throughout your posts. It's sad, really. I'm all for opening up discussion for other options, but if a person calls themself a Christian, they jolly well better hold to their book of faith (the Bible) as the ultimate written record of God's Truth. Otherwise they can introduce any strange beliefs and pack them into the Bible, rather than let the Bible define everything they see around them. Holding Science above Scripture is an extremely dangerous practice. Scripture interprets scripture. Science (as is understood by most today) is about explaining everything in a purely natural manner, to discredit/disallow any form of divine creator and divine intervention. Therefore, to be consistent, a Christian can't allow evolutionary thinking or day-age beliefs or any of that to have a foothold in their faith.
Again, no one has told me what Scripture exactly is, when there are so many accounts and beliefs about Jesus' life. Saying that a select group of people voted on it, doesn't convince me. The four Gospels were chosen because of Irenaeus' document in which he (alone) went through all the available Gospels and choose those four particular ones - he thought four would be the best number because it would represent the four winds, or corners of the earth. Part of the reason they were chosen was because they were narrative and simple in form, while other Gospels are more complex and harder to understand and he wanted to choose Gospels that would be easily understood and accepted - not the same as a picking them because they are the absolute truth above all the "Gnostic rubbish." I don't know if other Gospels were even considered at that Council. But that particular work by him had a great influence on the decisions that day.
And like Cycel said in one of his posts, I believe that the ancients wrote God's revelation in such a way to reflect what they personally believed and how they perceived the world. I haven't seen anyone address that argument yet, unless I skimmed over it. I haven't seen anyone address as to how the Hebrews had insight into "scientific knowledge" far ahead of their time while all other nations were still stuck in stupid. They had slaves - these people who supposedly were far better than anyone around them? Paul seemed himself to endorse slavery. But I digress.