Believing Genesis

The above is based on a Facebook comment I wrote in response to a question that pitted the Biblical creation account against “Darwinism”:

It is indeed a false dichotomy. Moreover, if you are talking about the details then you have to believe the order in Genesis 1 and the different order in Genesis 2, and you must accept the dome and other such details and not merely pick and choose. But even doing that would not be “believing the Bible” but embracing the knowledge of the world that was available in the Ancient Near East, which the authors of Genesis assumed rather than emphasized.