You must have had to invent and then jump through literalist hoops to make that language speak of actual cosmic phenomenon.
You don't think the Bible actually means what it says, do you? What kind of hyperliteralist are you anyway?
:-)
/sarcasm
PM, sad to say, but I admit to be a literate Christian. I am able to view with literacy the page before me and answer the questions about what I see. This literacy on my part is a shocking affair, beginning with reading, grammar, and composition classes in grade school continuing up through college.
The text does not say that the waters turned to fondue cheese, koolaid, milk, coca-cola, or bath oil.
It does say that the waters turned to blood.
How? God did it.
How? Dunno. Probably the same way He turned water into wine and raised a dead man eternally from the grave to be seated forever at the right hand of power. (He hasn't explained the "how" of those to me, either.)