Kind of glosses over the ~9b years that the ‘heavens’ existed before the Earth formed, and the vast difference in scale.
You’d have to wonder how any explanation that wasn’t obviously made up by a race that lived on the Earth and understood nothing about the wider universe could get the facts so wrong.
Light in a general, diffuse form started to penetrate the atmosphere at some point (this is the "creation" of light at 1:3). Then there was an expanse created to form a division between water below and those above. For an observer on earth, light would have only gradually penetrated the waters above as they formed into clouds. Eventually, the sun and moon and stars, and their motions, would become visible (1:14-18)
>>"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, and it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
You'd have to wonder how a scientific understanding could possibly be reflected in a poem that makes heavy use of reflective structures.
It's a poem, of a particular kind. The people it was written for would not have taken it literally. IIRC the Talmud doesn't say that it is obviously something literal. That's a more modern trend of Christianity, and even there, many sects don't.
There's problems with taking it literally. That it isn't scientifically accurate is the least of those.
It is a relatively recent development; in the Middle Ages, the literal interpretation was only one of four levels of interpretation, and generally seen as the least important one. It's about the last 2 or 3 centuries that Biblical Literalism became big.
Not really. The Mishnah, of the Talmud, originates from around 200CE. The first commentary on the poem treats it as a purely symbolic construction. These commentaries sum up thinking that was already common at the time, based on long oral traditions.
There are some Bible quotes that seem to show transcedental, accurate insights -- like the Earth floating in void, but not much, that's not something central to the Bible.
However, the existence of dinosaurs does not conflict with Genesis at all. The Bible simply says animals were created before man. For how long animals existed before the creation of man is not specified, it could have been millions of years. This allows for dinosaurs to have existed and gone extinct before man came along.
Also, the Bible does not talk about bacteria/viruses, but in the books of Moses, scientifically sound instructions are given as to how to curb the spread of disease through personal hygiene (e.g., burying human waste) and quarantining, etc. This implies a knowledge of the germ theory of disease. Contrast this with the ancient Egyptian "medical" practices of applying human waste poultices to open wounds, and the practice of open defecation common in many parts of the world even now.
Dinosaurs are believed to have been here before the flood by some. As for bacteria and viruses, well when you bring sin, you bring forth death, and death has many forms.
Course there's bacteria that isn't necessarily bad, and that's just part of the balance of things.
DNA is literally a language / coded instruction set - something that had to be designed and created, I've written a lot of code, it never ever accidentally writes itself, I have to design it and think thoroughly of what I want it to do.