And I will state again that there are millions of people in this country who believe the Bible is literally true. That it is inerrant and a completely factual account of what actually happened; including the 6 days creation, Noah's flood, the Earth being thousands rather than millions of years old, the whole nine yards. And a lot of them post here. Don't believe me? Check out a Darwin thread sometime.
If you take all three statements literally, then I arrived at my desk at 6:18am this morning (true), we had plates of unadorned pasta for dinner last night (no, there was also sauce, meat and cheese), and my hair is brown and formed into viscous blobs (no, it's just frizzy and unmanageable).
Yet the meaning of those statements are clear without further explanation.
Now I will go beat my head against the wall elsewhere.
Show me the Scripture that states the age of the earth.
I believe all those things are literal discriptions, but I still acknowledge that the Bible is full of literary devices and figurative language. But you can usually tell the difference. Often the Bible itself will directly point it out.
What I don't do, is assume that if I can't figure out how God did something, that it must be figurative. I don't know how he can answer a prayer, much less the instantaneous healing of an ear, walking on water, or appearing in full flesh within a locked room. He's God for crying out loud. He's obviously smarter than we are. So I don't sweat it when our smartest scientists can't figure out what happened on Joshua's long day, or how to make a life form from scratch.