Another discussion board I frequent has a poster who is both a practicing astrophysicist and a Haredi Jew living in Israel.
He would accept Genesis 1-11 as metaphorical, except that he also insists using the word "Genesis" means you're talking about the horrible Christian Bible which is nothing at all like the Torah, because it's full of mistranslations by ill-meaning Greeks and completely ignores the Oral Torah, which makes it clear that duh, of course it's metaphorical.
Hmmmm, imagine what would happen if I ever talked to this guy...
You guys would probably agree on some stuff. Like disliking Jews who only call themselves Jewish as an ethnic thing.
