Sorry, in order to believe your "plain and rational" interpretation, I have to deny too many other things that God has made visible to mankind, and simultaneously conclude that He is perverse and misleading. SO -- from a clear and rational point of view, there is clearly something in how Genesis was written that we need to reassess. The mistake and challenge is ours, not God's.
You didn't address two points: 1) Sun-centered solar system incompatible with the Bible; and 2) 10:2 Ecclesiastes that in any "clear and rational" reading says that people shouldn't opt to veer to the left, but should always veer to the right. (Of course, I take it to mean that God says liberals are fools! ;^)