“We often find the principle of stories in the bible to be true when the details do not match the evidence.”
Indeed. This is because a parable or allegorical story is a way of conveying an essential truth.
>>“We often find the principle of stories in the bible to be true when the details do not match the evidence.”
That is my feeling. How could God have explained that there are elements in our bodies we can live without except for super novas or that people who thought in terms of generations needed to think in terms of millions of generations? The bible really did the best it could.