The Biblical account of creation is Scriptural and for the deeply faithful, as close to fact as fact can be. Will you accept that to the Darwinist, the Theory of Evolution is as much a philosophical form of a religion as they claim of Creationists?
Personally, I have an idea that the two are not mutually exclusive and that Scripture can fill in gaping holes left by the constructors of evolutionary theory.
Do you not see your comment as an oxymoron?
The Lord gave Adam the means over the animals of the earth. (that means they were already here). The sin began shortly after and we all know that outcome.
Gensis has more than one creation story, and they are contaditory. Exodus has God visiting Moses much as Zeus came to earth, and, inexplicably, in Exodus 24, after God has sent Moses to Egypt to free his people, he comes to earth to kill him.<
You find contadictions in science, but not in the Bible? How so?