Okay, let me try this differently.
There was once a king who sent his son to a faraway land. One day a man comes to the prince and says he is a messenger of the king sent to take him somewhere. The prince loves his father and is completely loyal to him, but before following this man he wishes to determine whether he is truly a messenger or just a charlatan. For surely loyalty to his father does not mean being loyal to any person on the street who decides to invoke his father’s name.
So the prince does what any of us would do; he googles the guy. Turns out the guy has a hearing disability, and the prince knows very well that people with hearing disabilities are disqualified from being messengers of the king. The prince confronts the guy with his findings. The guy responds, “this is a test of your loyalties. If you are truly loyal to your father, you will believe I am his messenger despite this detail.”
The prince is insulted that his loyalties are being questioned. He is ready and willing to go through fire and water for his father the king, but he just can’t allow any yokel on the street to take advantage of him. Even if this guy is real, what’s to stop the next guy? His father should know this line of reasoning. This alone is proof to him that the guy is a fake.
Just to be sure, he hired five different private investigators. They each come back with the same answer: from all of the observable facts this guy is a has never seen the king.
So he decides not to follow the guy. Many years later the circumstances have it that he is reunited with his father the king. The first thing his father says is, “why didn’t you follow my messenger that I sent you?!” Answers the son, “how could you send someone that all the observable facts showed he was a fake?” The father replied exactly what the guy had said many years earlier, “that was to test your loyalties!” Said the prince, “how could you test my loyalties like that? How was I expected to know that it was you and not someone else playing me? Surely you don’t expect me to just follow anyone who claims to be from you! Surely you expect me to be rational and reasonable! It’s your own fault that I didn’t follow the guy!”
This is the rationale of those who choose not to explain Bereishis literally, and choose science over literalism. ??? ????? ???? ??? ?? ??????? ?? ???????: not just because he is merciful, but because such a method would totally defeat the purpose.