Be this as it may, realize the implications of coming down on the side of the either or on the side of the other, when answering the above question. If you choose the first alternative you, being a member of mankind, have two options. You may conclude that hence you flounder in the dark when saying more than the inspired report says, because how it truly all happened we apparently are unable to understand. On the other hand you may again elevate yourself above your fellow-creatures in the manner Copernicus has seduced us to adopt in astronomy. That is to say, sitting next to God in His temple you assume yourself to be in a position to tell us what the Lord really meant to say, but was unable to get across in understandable terms.
Transient man is unable to construct absolutes anywhere.
We cannot know, we can only believe. The lower cannot overreach the higher, the temporal not affirm the eternal. He who longs for absolutes must come to God, and believe that He is and that His Word is the Truth. The ruling relativism in astronomy is a frightful phenomenon that needed more than three centuries to reach maturity. Copernicus made its coming possible when he conceived the created cosmos as an object about which he as a subject independent from it could not only judge on equal footing with its Maker, but even was able to correct a mistake this Maker had failed to put aright.