[PatrickHenry]

Don't need no furriner's lingo! The King James version was good enough for Moses, so I'm gonna stick with that.
</tipsy conservative mode>

[Alamo-Girl]

I know you meant that in jest but actually, I think you'd enjoy reading the various translations of Genesis 1 from the original Hebrew. According to the second link and thousands of years of thought and tradition by Jewish scholars - the poetic translation is correct, but the form and meaning of the words are quite telling especially wrt relativity, cosmology, physics, etc.

At any rate, we Christians receive Truth from the Spirit - both the living Word of God Jesus Christ (John 1, Rev 19) and the written Scriptures. Truth always trumps facts. Hence the 34 (or so) verses of Genesis 1 trump the hundreds of thousands of volumes of scientific text.

But they are speaking at two different levels, hence there are many misunderstandings. The only metaphor that comes to mind is a poor one: the Constitution v. the Internal Revenue Code.