I don't know about the AoC, but I do recall the Pope publishing something a few years ago indicating that Genesis 1 is obviously at least partially metaphorical. It defies reasoning to believe otherwise: 1:14 pretty clearly lays out that God didn't create methods for reckoning time until the "fourth day".
But as creation myths go, the text seems very non-wacky to me. If we were to go back in time four thousand years and try to teach cosmology to a bunch of nomadic goat-herders who would then play Chinese whispers with it for the next few millennia before writing it down, I'm not sure we could have done much better. It's wrong about the earth being created before the rest of the solar system, but pretty revolutionary in claiming that energy is older than matter. It's a shame that so many fundimentalists don't spend their time hyping where the Bible is right instead of putting their efforts into proving that, I don't know, the moon is an independent light source instead of reflecting sunlight.
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But as creation myths go, the text seems very non-wacky to me. If we were to go back in time four thousand years and try to teach cosmology to a bunch of nomadic goat-herders who would then play Chinese whispers with it for the next few millennia before writing it down, I'm not sure we could have done much better. It's wrong about the earth being created before the rest of the solar system, but pretty revolutionary in claiming that energy is older than matter. It's a shame that so many fundimentalists don't spend their time hyping where the Bible is right instead of putting their efforts into proving that, I don't know, the moon is an independent light source instead of reflecting sunlight.