Two different threads with the same title and I think they reference the same work.
The Age of the Universe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576941/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3051495/posts
There’s no reason to think that the first part of Genesis is metaphorical.
Except you then have events more fit to a show like “Bewitched” than to nature, like the rate at which Adam named the animals (and the animals came, from around the globe) and the agenda of the formation and meeting of his wife.
You have to believe in Procrustean beds to doggedly carry on with the 24-hour agenda, and yet many do. It is more, not less, entertainment of intellectualism than other, messier theories.