I'm really shocked that I seem to be alone in this opinion...
The Bible contains large swaths of metaphor for things that are certainly, absolutely intended to be taken as such. For instance, the largest book in The Bible is Psalms, which is entirely written in poetic verse. It's meant to be felt and weighed, not litigated. The question of dinosaurs, evolution, prehistoric humans, and essentially all history predating early Abrahamic culture is essentially contained completely in the book of Genesis.
Genesis spans from the story of creation to the beginning of the Exodus of the Israelite people from Egypt. It's an incredibly long amount of time.
According to some of the Biblical scholarship stuff I've read, the WAY Genesis is written is very important, as it gives clues to the intention of the author and therefore a clearer picture of what the intended message was supposed to convey.
Genesis is written in a similar fashion to other literature from that time period that was meant to convey a metaphor rather than an instruction manual. This isn't to say at all that The Bible is to be interpreted loosely and without conviction; it is, but when things are repeated in specific language, I think that's how we ought to approach those verses. Again, Genesis is written like a story, not an instruction manual.
So I believe that really evolution and Genesis aren't mutually exclusive. And the other unanswered issues too. I see no reason why God didn't use the tool of evolution in order to create humanity. Really, the metaphorical creation of man out of dust is really not inaccurate according to the theory of evolution.
I think what God was more concerned about addressing in the book of Genesis was much less the technical details of our creation, but rather the essence of our nature. After all, when you're writing a book that will have an audience spanning thousands of years, there's little purpose in telling sheep herders that they morphed out of trilobites.
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