If someone fails to recognize allegory, metaphor, simile and poetry in Scripture, they miss out on a lot of TRUTH.
“If someone fails to recognize allegory, metaphor, simile and poetry in Scripture, they miss out on a lot of TRUTH.”
Precisely! Therefore, it is not a literally inerrant document. Divinely inspired, yes, but not, in general, literally true. Creation may in fact have been brought to its current state through a mechanism such as evolution. That assertion is not contradictory to your own representation of the Bible as largely symbolic.