Let Us Make Man in Our Image

There's a symmetry to this presentation of the creation account, which I think is a good reason to think this was intended to be symbolic. This was intended to reflect kind of the order and the symmetry of creation. And those happen to include the foul. Well, they fly around through the skies. Well, that's right. The skies are water. Right. And then day three corresponds to day six, where we have the inhabitants of the dry lands and everything else is filled in. So there's a poetry to it. Exactly. It would make sense that this was that this was symbolism, that this wasn't meant to be literal stuff. Yeah.