Most religion is faith-based, rather than logic-based.

[Major Nikon]

114. Translation errors happen with even the very best translators

Translations of ancient documents are inevitably riddled with them. Part of this is due to human error and part of this is just due to ignorance of where and when something was written which is extremely important as language inevitably changes over space and time, particularly so in an age where the vast majority of people are illiterate and literary publications are rare. If you think about how much our language has changed in the last 400 years between US and England in a relatively modern age, multiply that by many times over a longer span and throw in a few conversions to other languages.

That's why I got a kick out of Gil convincing himself that he is deriving very subtle meanings from creation myths as if he or anyone else has any idea what the original authors actually meant.