I think we can all agree that the entire Bible is not meant to be taken literally.  Consider the Song of Solomon (what would his lover look like if we take it literally?) or the book of Revelation.

So I would like to understand the case for believing the Genesis creation account, among all Biblical texts, is one that is intended to be interpreted literally. I'm not interested in scientific evidence for a young-earth in these answers. I'm interested in Biblical or historical reasons why this text, as a whole (as opposed to individual words), should be considered literal.

I would also discourage answers that address specific words in the Genesis account (such as the Hebrew 'yom'), but if that is the strongest evidence you have, then I won't consider it an invalid answer.


Question: AES 256 Encryption - Is it really easy to decrypt if you have the key?
Answer: I assume you follow Kerckhoff's principle so the attacker knows the padding scheme and derivation function so the answer is yes, it only takes a few seconds to decrypt and anyone can do it. 

If he doesn't know these things, he can find them by trial and error (assuming he can get his hands on a valid ciphertext).

The IV can be sent in the clear so making it depend on the key reveals some information on the key. It should also be unique for each session so I'm a bit worried about it. It should be OK if the KDF you're using is non-deterministic, which implies it uses its own IV so the problem remains. See this question for more on IVs.



Edit based on comments:
The cracking procedure is the following: 
$a$ is the number of all modern ciphers. Let's set this to 100. $m$ is the number of modes per cipher, set it to 6. $k=100$ is the number of key derivation functions, $p=100$ are the padding schemes. The values are arbitrary. So we have $(p*k*m*a*c)/n = 6*10^6$ which equals to approx. 69 days with $c=1$ second and $n=1$ processor. 

Your adversary will solve the problem in $69/2=34.5$ days. Not as practical but definitely feasible, especially if you throw extra processors at it. This solution is completly brute-force, it makes no attempt at distinguishing and pre-eliminating ciphers.

Since non-indistinguishability is a business requirement (really?) you could just get away with using ECB instead of any other mode.