How do you now He did not intend those chapters of Genesis to interpreted symbolically? They are written in a poetic style, you know. Often, that's a dead give-away for symbolism in the Bible.
"God was sovereign in every detail of the writing and preservation of His word. It is infallible, not subject to the limitations of human authorship. Or hadn't you thought of that?"
So how do you explain the evidence for the earth being billions of years old?