and if you don't take it LITERALLY.
Just look at the fudging that we have had to go through and we are not even midway through Verse One.
The first line is just an introduction.
When God said "Let there be light" he didn't mean let there be light, what he meant was that the light got through the clouds.
And the next few lines of Genesis, particularly when it gets to the order in which things were created, totally falls apart.
I personally don't like the term Myth when applied to Genesis.
IMHO, it was an early Theory of Creation.
It worked well at the time, explained what the people saw and lasted for quite a while.
But like all Theories, when they can no longer explain the facts being observed, they need to be modified or abandoned.
This is no different than the early theories of desease that invoked
humors, or the Ptolemaic Theory of the Solar Sytem.
The Genesis Theory of Creation simply does not hold up and needs to be abandoned.
Aslan is not a Tame Lion