@revelette,
That's called rationalizing the unrational.
According to the bible, the earth is 7,000 y/o. According to science, the earth is 4.5 billions y/o.
How is that taken out of context?
The facts are that those men who wrote the bible had no idea about the earth's age, and they jumped right in and created verse to match their ignorance.
There are many verses like those that you would need to "rationalize" in order to take them at face value - in your eyes.
You need to manipulate the stories so often to meet what you want it to say, it becomes inconsistent and irrational.
Most religious people can't accept the idea that prayers do not work; research on prayer have been done to prove they don't work.
Those kinds of inconsistencies are ignored by the faithful.