Biblical Interpretation

Given the wide differences of opinion of members of Abrahamic religions and biblical scholars regarding how to interprete the writings found in the Bible, one may legitimately conclude that the Bible is the greatest Ink Blot (Rorschach) Test in human history. After the dawn of science, many religious people began having cognitive dissonance between the findings of science and Biblical writings. (link)

The Book of Genesis in particular presents major problems in its relationship to reality as found through science.  It clearly conforms to the genre of a Creation Myth produced when there was no science and superstitious myths were the only ways of attempting to explain the unexplainable. In other words, I think it was not written as a metaphor but as history, albeit, a false account. The Bible was most probably only created by the imagination of humans. (link)