I should not jump on here. (But when has that ever stopped me :|? )
I think you are Rrhain are talking past each other a bit. I finally seem to see this based on this most recent post.
Here is my guess. Rrhain is adopting a position against the bible literalists. His whole argument is colored by that.
You are simply discussing Genesis from a point of view of someone examining the text and the story without any particular religious or anti-religious point of view. You are not attempting to take it literally or even as something based on anything that actually happened but now told in simplified way.
If I'm even a little right, then the conflict ends when you both agree that there is no way that the story works if there is an attempt to take it literally.
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