If it is not completely literal, then it should be referring allegorically in some way to the universe as we now understand it. Yet, the men who wrote it had no knowledge about ANY, or any part, of what we now understand about the cosmos.
And until we started understanding more, Genesis was always taken literally by Christians.
If you do take it literally, then you can see that the sky is a solid "firmament" with water behind it (later used for Noah's flood, and also why the sky is blue). The stars are really small holes in the firmament where the light of heaven leaks through (or decorations), and you realize that the sun and moon were fixed directly onto the firmament which rotated to distinguish night and day (and for a light source).
Really, how do feel about Genesis?
2007-09-22
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