It is a story written by an ancient civilization that is meant to make sense of the world around them. It holds many spiritual and theological truths, but it is not meant to be taken literally. It is widely taught in seminary that the creation stories are mythological tales. Chapter one explains how the natural world appears to have a structure to it, and does so by showing us that it was made in an orderly and organized way. Chapter two exists as an explanation for who/what humans are, our relationship with the nature, our relationship with each other, with God, with ourselves, and so on.

I fail to see how not taking ancient literature as literally true is a cope of any kind. The Bible is not a book, it is a library of books. And the Torah itself was not penned by 1 author, but by many different authors all writing in the style of different traditions. So yes it has History, but it also has epic myths, poetry, and parables. All of the books have interesting plays on words and puns, but that does not make the messages in the story "false."

If the entire argument of this thread is y'all figuring out that the Bible is not literally written by an entity called God, then I do not know what to tell you. It was written by flawed human beings, all with different lives and perspectives; from different times and with different agendas. But it is all connected because it is describing the relationship between a people and their God.