That very same man spoke of things in the book of Genesis such as the creation and Sodom and Gomorrah, as history, not as metaphor.
True. I didn't say otherwise. Where does Jesus say that God literally reached to the ground, grabbed some dirt, and molded a man with his hands, though?
On that point, Genesis doesn't in any respect demand a literal interpretation. Since we know that's not how species came into existence, therefore, there would be no rational justification for giving it a literal interpretation, and much rational justification for giving it a metaphorical one.
