Quote:To say that Genesis is mythical or allegorical does not imply that it is of the literary genre of fiction though.
No, not technically. Literary fiction is generally self-aware. The authors of the Bible had no clue about cosmology and physics, so they cannot have been expected to have any idea how the universe truly began, so they cobbled together a bunch of local superstitions and decided that an old Canaanite deity made the whole thing himself. They have some excuse for being ignorant. It's people in the 21st century who have none. The world wasn't made in six days, and humans have been around a lot longer than six thousand years.
