Joe, pete, interesting discussion.

My problem with trying to find science in Genesis, is that there isn't enough there to be a basis of scientific thinking. "let there be light." doesn't exactly explain where the hydrogen that the Sun is burning came from.

So as a Christian trying to make sense of it all beyond what is there. I am left with three choices.

1 Call it allegory and appreciate the poetry of it as Joe does.

2 Say the author was dumbing it down for the audience of 3000 years ago.

3 Insist that it is all literally make up what it means and the missing parts of the narrative and selectively try to cherry pick scientific data to support the theory I have invented (creationism)

My approach is a combination of 1 & 2

At least I am not a big banger, but that's not what the wife says.