Every civilization has a creation myth. Some myths are very strange indeed. And in like fashion nearly every culture has some sort of exit plan: an end to the world. And so it is- birth and death, creation, death, and resurrection. But do we have to try and make these myths LITERAL? I’m fine with anyone who does: each to his or her own interpretation; however, let’s not kill each other over the differences in our “beliefs“. It serves no Godly purpose- nor any good purpose.
Christians actually have two creation stories. There’s the one written in 500BCE that found in Genesis 1 and then there’s the one written in 1,000BCE (that’s right, 500 years before the first one) that begins in the middle of Genesis 2:4.
Remember, any truth taken to an extreme is heresy.
All creation myths are a way that man and the culture he lived in tries to explain what happened “in the beginning”. Since there were no historians there to record the events, we rely upon the spiritualists, shamans, and story-tellers to give us “their accounting”. However, we have to embrace such stories with a light touch. After all it’s not what one believes or knows about God, but what ones does with what one believes or knows about God.
That’s where the rubber meets the road. 
There will always be a gap between science and myth. They serve different masters.
There will always be a difference between rationality and intuition and we need them both.
There will always be a difference between technology and technique. Let it be so!
We were created to love not judge! Right?
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