To those who believe Bible is not literal...

[chatpilot]

Shame then there's the other version of events that completely blows a hole in all of that. If you research the historicity of the text and the way it was written I think it's a long stretch to conclude that a literal interpretation fits.

Here is a quote from a well known Rabbi on the subject of the literal days of creation: "Our mesorah insists that the six days of Creation, counting from the first creative act, were six literal days.4 One cannot insert the evolutionary explanation into the p’sukim by claiming that the days were actually billions of years. Even the idea that Creation was anything less than a totally miraculous process, not conducted through natural processes at all, ─accelerated” or otherwise─is rejected by the Maharal "

Read it for yourself at http://blog.dovidgottlieb.com/2010/01/to...ation.html

Now who would you rather trust an interpretation from someone who is interpreting from the sources written in their own language or from some modern Christian moron trying to make the bibles version fit with what modern science has shown to be completely erroneous?