The champions of the symbolic view are contemptuous of those who affirm the historicity of Genesis 1-11 . Their arguments against Genesis 1-11 are vague and specious, but their scorn is very real. Having in effect adopted a non-Biblical view of God, they cannot concede veracity to his word. Their god is process, not the Creator. God as process is basic to those who want evolution together with a religious faith that somehow retains the god-concept.
Evolution is a process whose god is time.
The alternative to the Biblical God is chance, and, very early, it was held that, given enough time, chance could accomplish anything. If a great number of monkeys type on typewriters for an endless time, they would eventually reproduce all the works of Shakespeare. But this famous illustration is a farce. It presupposed numerous monkeys, typewriters, and warehouses full of paper which somehow are fed into the typewriters. This absurd illustration gives the lie to chance and to evolution.