In the modern day, many Christians either don't care enough about origins to take a Biblical stance, or hate the Biblical stance so much, they are quick to substitute the word of God for the tall tales of man. But this is a relatively new phenomenon. For literally thousands of years, though Jews and Christians have often been surrounded by pagans who preached old earth philosophies, we have always pushed back against them. It is a lie that "Young" Earth Creationism is a recent development, and it is a lie that many, or indeed any so-called Church "Fathers" accepted, or would have accepted, Old Earth views. Even Augustine, who is so frequently misquoted by Old Earth compromisers, tells us "...reckoning by the sacred writings, we find that not 6,000 years have yet passed."
Further evidence that the "literal" interpretation of Genesis comes from a well-respected ancient Jewish book by the name of Tobit. Although not technically Scripture, Tobit is one of a collection of books that was often circulated alongside Scripture. Well noted figures, such as Jerome and Athanasias, argued that Tobit is good spiritual reading, and even the original KJV contained this ancient work.
In Tobit, two of the characters, Tobiah and Sarah, say a prayer. We can dispute the historicity of this prayer, and even whether or not these two people actually existed, but one fact that is indisputable is that the author of Tobit incorporated Genesis-style beliefs, such as Eve being directly created for Adam, and that the entire human race is descended from this first couple. Aside from directly quoting Genesis, the prayer sounds very similar to Acts 17:26.
This is just one more piece of evidence that the Jews have always interpreted Genesis 1-11 as real history. Tobit 8:6 is just one example that shows they at least believed Adam and Eve were the literal first humans, from which all of us are descended, a conclusion that can easily be drawn from simply reading Genesis itself. By contrast, there are no examples of anyone having ever believed Genesis portrays an old Earth, that it is nothing but a metaphor, that God could have used Evolution or the Big Bang etc., all the way up to the 1700s (and that's me being generous, I don't even know of any examples that are that old). Old Earth myths are nothing new, but they were always limited to the pagans. The worst dispute was whether or not the 6 days were 1 day, and it's very obvious who won that particular debate.
There is a saying that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, but sometimes, we should learn from history in order to repeat it. Just as we should learn from the mistakes of our ancestors, we must take great care to continue their successes. The compromises we have made with this world by absorbing their origins myths have had devastating effects, causing even many souls to perish. Let us therefore repent, and stand firm on the word of God from the very first verse. If that means we are accused of ignorance by men who think they are glorified monkeys, so be it.