Regardless, the following text is clearly an exposition for the story of Adam. As part of the story, it explains what the world was like when God created Adam -- there was no rain on the earth until the flood, so the ecosystem was obviously quite different then.
That fits in perfectly with the flat earth the old testaments teaches.
In In Genesis, the long discredited description of the heavens as a "firmament" is a fundamental contradiction in the Bible of the known realities of astronomy today. Biblical stars, sun and moon are all embedded "in" this firmament.
We are told there are waters below the firmament, and told waters are "above" it, too (1:7).
Why was the firmament formed in the "midst" of earth's "waters"(1:6)? Clearly, this is an image of a dome-like firmament over flat waters of a flat earth. Had earth commonly been known to be round then, the writers wouldn't need to have God set the domes in the sea, a notion likely conceived to keep seas from draining off over the "edges" or "ends" of the earth.
In order to accept a litteral genesis you MUST accept a flat earth. Sorry...
As said by a modern day bible believers that believe in a litteral genesis located here-
http://www.geocentricity.com/
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/geocentr.htm
Just example verses they use to accept the "geocentric model"... Remember, Heaven is up and the underworld is down in the bible.
In Joshua 10:13, the children of Israel are avenging themselves on their enemies. The Bible says that THE SUN STOOD STILL and hasted not to GO DOWN about a whole day.
Isaiah 38:8 says THE SUN RETURNED ten degrees by which degrees it was GONE DOWN.
Daniel 4:7-8, "I saw a tree of great height at the center of the world. It was large and strong, with its top touching the heavens, and it could be seen from the ends of the earth." Dream or not, this is a flat earth story.
Matthew 4:8, "The devil took him (Jesus) to a very high mountain and displayed before him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence...."
Job 38:22, "Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, and seen the treasury of the hail?"
In Genesis 11:4, the people wanted to build a tower up to heaven. The tower of Babel.
MT 24:29-30 Although the sun and the moon have been darkened and the stars have fallen from heaven, there is still enough light to see.
JOB 9:6 (KJV) God shakes the earth out of its place and makes its pillars tremble.
Isaiah 40
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Note: Not a sphere, a circle... Flat earth all the way.
Oh and the "ascention of christ"... Jesus litteraly got up off the ground and FLEW up to heaven. This is consistant with a flat earth.
After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God." Mark 16:19-20
"What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before!" John 6:62
'I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'"" John 20:17
Eph. 4:8-10, down to Hell, up to Heaven...