The bible is....

[Edwardo Piet]

I would have put "A collection of myths trying to unify the Judean cults with the best data they had available at the time". It is pretty easy for non believers to make fun of it, but I have no doubt the writers genuinely believed what they where putting in writing. Just like the Egyptians believed it when they chiseled their hieroglyphics and the Muslims wrote their Qura'n.

There people didn't have the luxury of having so much knowledge as we do now. Likewise 2000 years from know humans will probably wonder how we got by with so little knowledge and might laugh at our attempts of forming a unifying theory.

Yeah, I think its a work of fiction because it isn't fact, not because the authors designed it to be fiction - they probably believed the whole thing, if not, at least most of it.
I guess I should have also put something like "A primitive attempt at trying to understand the wonderful aspects of the universe. And also having the need to think that everything or at least most things have intentions. Even things that do not contain a mind or thoughts"
I was simplifying, generalizing and perhaps stereotyping the options a bit, perhaps I should try and do a more serious one but still try and keep the responses short?
I guess its because I don't really know much about the intelligent theist's explanations, only the typical ones, so I had to sort of stereotype the atheistic explanations a bit too otherwise it wouldn't really be fair. I could do an atheistic only version perhaps, different atheistic interpretations of the bible, and you pick the best one, even if you're not atheist