Or perhaps you are just offering evidence that Genesis must have been written by somebody with lesser revelation than Moses. You seem to be alluding to some sort of concordist program. Since this is just about my last post to the list, I might as well stick my neck out one final time. There is a lot more to reality than what we observe.
Progress is relative.
God laughs at us. And you have always demonstrated the good sense that we too should be willing to laugh at ourselves. As always, a pleasure, Indeed it always is. Bear in mind that I haven't said I know what Genesis 1 means, I am only trying to demonstrate some of the reasons internal to the text that suggest specific meaning to me, and thus answer your suggestion that I have driven by a priori considerations. In the Scripture there seems to be confusion between the visible heavens and the invisible.