As predicted in my original post, you're confident that your interpretation is correct, and others are wrong.
This is why I have respect for science, and none for faith. Scientists may be stubborn, and resist new ideas, making new theories work overtime to demonstrate their validity. But science does eventually have an open mind to new information, while religion does not.
Religion is stuck in the past, and science is the future.
The Christian denominations used to be open to science, and indeed science came from the Renaissance of Christian Europe. I was taught in a Southern Baptist youth camp that there were no conflicts between the Bible and science. That science was the study of Gods creation.
But the recent spread of fundamentalist Christian denominations and their descent into cult-like denial of reality is a sad departure from what I was taught as a youth. Like any cult, they have a strong hold on their congregations, because that's necessary in order to shut out conflicting realities. I'm sure it does wonders for the tithe every Sunday, but I cannot accept such irrationality.
I'm glad you do not follow this same line of reasoning in your political outlook, or you'd stay away from the voting booth because of 'cult-like' voters out there.
What you were taught as a youth WILL come back to you:
Proverbs 22:6
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Just as YOU do, Narby, in the way YOU think about religion is right, and the religious folks are all wrong.