[mnehring]

The creation story is actually stunningly accurate when taken as a parable.

Throughout history the Jews have interpreted this, like Job, as what is known as a Pesher, an allegorical story meant to describe & teach a lesson or moral law, not a scientific or historic description.

Your insight about relating this to a parable is very accurate.. Jesus actually used the Pesher tool quite often in his teachings..

[MindBender26]

Revelations describes a "white hot body, like a star, burning up and consuming some of the Earth. And the name of the star is Wormwood."

The Russian word for Wormwood is Chernobyl.