text: Christians try to reinterpret the failed literal text of the bible, such as the heavens being an iron sheet pierced with holes, meant literally, as a metaphorical explanation of lights in the night sky, and the Garden of Eden Creation myth, borrowed during the Babylonian captivity, as a metaphorical explanation for Cosmology, Astronomy, Geology, and Evolution. 
  
  Understanding a metaphor does not mean that you agree it is an accurate model of reality. One persons metaphor is another persons lie. The Old Testament Bible text was meant literally by the ancient Hebrews who composed it, not metaphorically. Issac Asimov wrote extensively about that.
  
  Another way to view it is as a failed model. Newtonian Mechanics explained a lot, but not precession of the perihelion of mercury's orbit, or gravitational lensing. The scientific model is not objective reality, any more than a metaphor is. You have to admit where the model / metaphor fails and look more closely.
  
  Get that beam out of your eye.