If one believes in God, it is not at all inconsistent to regard the Bible as exactly what it is: a book of myth and metaphor written, not by God, but by men living in tribal societies, speculating on how they thought it might have all come about. The Bible is NOT a scientific treatise.

This view of the Creation account in the Bible in no way denigrates God.

In fact, if one looks at the mind-boggling pictures of the Universe taken with the Hubble and other orbiting telescopes, the magnitude of the Cosmos makes the idea the ALL THIS was created in a mere six days simply silly! And a Being who could have created this at all (the work of some 13.5 billion years at least) must be Powerful indeed! Through these photographs, one can get a hint of the actual power of an Entity who could create all this!

BEHOLD!

It denigrates the concept of God to persist in the six day, 6,000 year ago myth.   And this strikes me as something very close to blasphemy. I would warn Creationists to have a care.

Rather than an omniscient, omnipotent Deity, their concept attempts to reduce God to the status of a mere wand-waving wizard!

As I say--have a care!

Don Firth