In Genesis the plants were created before the sun moon and stars

[bilby]

Clearly the text is open to many interpretations.

Clearly you don't grasp that that renders it valueless as a source of information about reality.

 

[Lion IRC]

^The link that I provided indicates that the days of creation are to be understood as symbolic.

Partly symbolic.

 

[No Robots]

^The link that I provided indicates that the days of creation are to be understood as symbolic.

Partly symbolic.

Here is Harry Waton on this subject:

[F]rom beginning to end, the Bible, in addition to its plain literal language, also speaks a symbolic language, Since the plain stories recorded in the Bible are only symbols of perceptions, concepts and ideas, and to understand these perceptions, concepts and ideas we must decipher and interpret the symbols, it follows that the symbolic language of the Bible is infinitely more significant to us than its plain literal language. And yet while infinite labor and thought was bestowed upon the study of the plain and literal language of the Bible, the symbolic language of the Bible was entirely neglected by the scholars.