I'd find it more natural to say a record revolves on a turntable than that it rotates. ("What's a turntable? And what's a record?")

Maybe if Genesis was written in a more folksy style people would recognise it was a story, and stories don't have to be factual to be true.

"One time God woke up and he said 'It's too dark to see - let there be light". And the world lit up, and that was the first day. And God picked up the dark, and stuck it in his pocket till it was time to let it out, and that was the first night..."