This is not to say textbooks never make mistakes (even the best ones occasionally do),
I know ONE textbook that has no mistakes in it.
Really?
You're wrong.
Read the three accounts of Peter's denial of Christ, then tell me which version got the genders and identities of the denial correct.
Also, much of the Bible is intended as allegory. You don't really hate your children do you? This is what Jesus literally demands in Luke 14:26.
There are errors of detail in the Bible, and what's more, the Bible is not a science text. It has no authority in that realm any more than it has authority as a phone book. Most of the science portrayed literally in the Bible is blatantly wrong.