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"The natural way to read is literally."

I don't think that's true at all. And as the article I linked shows, there are lots of things that points to an allegorical reading of the creation story.

I visited the link briefly enough to see that it constituted a textual criticism. I am not going to sit here and argue textual criticism with you. I am working under the assumption that Moses wrote the book of Genesis as revealed to him by God through the Holy Spirit. We are not talking about the origin of the text, we are talking about the text itself. Your comment was something along the lines of the natural way to read Genesis was figuratively. I asked you for textual evidence for that and you pointed me to a textual criticism link, which is a shifting of the argument from simply "what the book says" to "where did the book come from".

So which is it ? Are you trying to argue concerning the origin of the text ? If so, we are done because I have not the time to do so. If this is your tact then the least you can do is admit that you have no basis to read Genesis figuratively other than "I feel like it".