As St. Augustine found, Genesis as well as the rest of the bible only reveal their message if you understand metaphysics, especially understanding that our Universe is only a portion of the totality of existence, and things represented as objects in time (including people), are not real among this totality. Spacetime is an invention of neural networks meant to support survival of the individual and species in this imaginary universe. That is why the bible (or the words created by the authors of the bible) is not enough to sway the multitude to faith....it leaves out the underlying science and philosophy, or expresses it in poetic confusing ways.