No it is not! It is a book that speaks of the glory of God! But when it speaks of matters that are scientific it is absolutely correct!
And yes it is as simple as reading it in black and white. The language, grammar and construct give it to be taken literally!
The only ones who will not take it literally are those who have been convinced that the first 11 chapters of Genesis are a lie! the evidence against a 6,000+or- year creation is very very very weak and undefensible by the scientific method.
Yes dinos existed and thrived! But it wasn't millions of years ago. That is only contrived by a now empirically proven fatally flawed dating methodology!
We can indeed calculate using the genealogies the time from
after Adam and Eve lost access to the Garden and the Tree of Life, and entered the mortal world of normal time as we know it.
That mere time duration from
after they left the Garden, we can indeed calculate, as you point to, but....consider --
Does it really matter even then precisely how long that genealogy time was as a mere numerical number -- as just a quantity. Just a specific amount of years? Like if it is 6,020 that would be crucial, and 7,050 would somehow be a problem?
No, that's not what ever matters at all I bet you agree. What matters instead for the genealogies I think you'd agree is how they show as the fulfillment of prophecy. Yes?
Then we shouldn't overemphasize the genealogy
numerical year calculation as special or notable. It's not a key thing in any way, but instead what matters is belief. Since belief is what matters, the number is a distraction and even a wrong direction, really. What you need to say instead is that dinosaurs existed according to God's plan, and they went extinct according to God's plan, and never get side tracked into mere numerical assertions about only time periods as if that matters to faith, because it will trip and destroy some people, and then you'd be held accountable on the Day of Judgement for emphasizing a number at expense of some souls....
A very helpful chapter about this is
1rst Corinthians chapter 8.
We at times must give up some personal preference/freedom we might personally enjoy, if needed, when using that particular freedom would destroy someone weak around us.
Here on the internet, you are as if in a huge church of many thousands, and there will absolutely then be 1 Cor 8 situations.