Ah, but then we couldn't run around saying how smart we were, that WE cracked the code, WE figured it out! :)
I agree with you. St. Augustine of Hippo was one of the greatest theologians Christianity has ever produced--he wrote a whole book on the Literal Interpretation of Genesis and sheepishly admitted he was asking more questions than he was answering. He offered competing interpretations and then left it up to others to decide which one was better. I wish we could be so humble today!
Personally I favor the idea that the 6 days describe prehistoric earth and include what we know as the geologic eras. And the Garden of Eden was likely somewhere in the lower Sumerian plain in the Neolithic ca. 6000-4000 BC. I don't believe it's a coincidence that this time and this place are "the Cradle of Civilization".
We’ve come to essentially the same conclusions. It’s why all this evolution talk doesn’t phase me. Clearly, we live in a world of enormous order, despite the advantage entropy plays. I worship a God of order, laws and logic.