Theists: what does your god want for you?

[CleanShavenJesus]

Oh, yeah.

Entire biological kingdoms are never even hinted at (fungi, protists, the bacteria). God told Adam to name all the beasts after their kind, a tall order when there are more than a million classified species in the animal kingdom and only a minuscule fraction of animals (all conveniently local to the middle east) are depicted as existing in Eden.

I find it kind of odd that anybody took the Bible seriously once it was obvious that the universe took a lot longer to make than one week, yet here we are, more than a hundred years later, every piece of evidence ever found contradicting the Bible, and people still interpret it literally.

You are assuming Genesis, which has two accounts, is meant to be taken literally.

I don't see any allegorical use for it. It's the Bible's way of explaining how we got here.