You are mislead Drummond, or more rightly, you are ignorant of the true meaning of the words in the Bible. Poster Black1blade was 100% correct when he said to you:
"maybe your literal interpretation of the bible is incorrect and there are meant to be more metaphorical interpretations?"Like many others your mind has been deliberately steered down one way of thinking, towards one interpretation, a literal translation of the Bible.
If you have ears to hear then listen well . . . the Bible IS NOT meant to be read literally. It is incorrect to take anything literally from it. The stories, accounts are allegorical, cryptic and in some cases completely encoded.
Don't take my word for this, go and see for yourself.
Let me start by telling you that the book of Genesis IS NOT describing the creation of the universe. Got that ? Absolutely, totally 100% NOT talking about the Creation.
Thus every theory and belief you have harboured using that as a foundation, is in fact a fallacy and is incorrect.
Please read my posts in this thread:
https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5021724It won't take you long.
You will see beyond any doubt that the book of Genesis is describing the simple alchemical process for creating the Elixir Of Life, the Philosopher's Stone. A creation of a kind I grant you, but certainly not the creation of the universe.
The Philosopher's Stone is a product of Nature. Nature creates it through her natural processes. The alchemist can speed up the process by providing perfect environments for the Stone to grow and mature.
Please read my posts in that thread and you will understand. There are literally 100s of documents, tracts, scripts and treatises spanning 100s of years that all describe the Philosopher's Stone and the Bible is just another. All accounts of it are written allegorically and cryptically so that "ordinary" people would not see it.
The Bible is NOT meant to be read literally. Doing so is foolish in the extreme.
ATB