Quite frankly, I don't know how you can believe in an inerrant and literal word and not have that concern -- and not say something about it. Similarly, if you really believe that the truth is a metaphorical truth and that is what is intened, you should say something about it.
What concern - that I don't believe in an "inerrant and literal word" (with gluadys' caveat) because I don't have a good relationship with God? But you see, I
don't credit my understanding of the Bible simply and purely to my relationship with God. I took time, effort, reading, and thinking to arrive where I am in terms of Biblical interpretation. I knew I wanted to do science, I'd heard things that didn't jive between science and Scripture (which are far more fundamental than the issue of how to interpret a few chapters in Genesis), and I needed to work them out before I could confidently be a Christian scientist. Thus far the Holy Spirit does not seem to have opposed what I believe, nor has He revealed anything (in that area) which I wouldn't have figured out on my own. (Of course, it may well be that things seemed logical to me only because He made them so. But I hope you get what I mean. Trying to discuss God's works in human words is so difficult, isn't it?)
Let's start by comparison with a far more neutral field. I play bass guitar in my church for worship, and I train a few juniors on the side. Some of them have problems with basic skills. Now, why are they having those problems? Why are they doing things differently from me? If I were to pull one of them aside and say "Your scales are all wobbly ... you need to pray more!" that wouldn't make sense, now would it? Not only that, it would be an affront to him: I'm attacking his spirituality based on something that may or may not have anything to do with his spirituality. He may take it positively, or negatively, but the fact is that I had no right to say what I did. His bass skills are weak probably because he doesn't practice, not because he doesn't pray.
In the same way, I believe that my Biblical position is based on a lot of time and effort spent looking at the Scripture-science relationship, not just my relationship with God, in the same way that my bass expertise is based on a lot of time and effort practicing bass. And I bear no grudge whatsoever against someone not putting in time and effort in that area. We all have to prioritize: my self-learning of Koine Greek is going at a snail's pace, I don't have time to read any of the classical theologians (besides where they pertain to origins), and I don't have the money to buy anything else once I've went and bought a response to Dawkins. In my study of the Bible I put so much effort (on top of the basics) in looking at the relationship between Scripture and science that I would be completely out of my league looking at the relationship between, say, Scripture and law (where I would expect you to know far more than me).
So if someone comes to a different opinion of that Scripture-science relationship, I expect that perhaps the person would have spent less time and effort studying this relationship, or perhaps studied it with different starting points and goals. And I don't hold anything against that person. I don't expect it to affect his/her relationship with God. I expect far more fundamental things like how willing you are to share Christ and how much you serve in church and how you pray and whether you're worshiping idols to affect his/her relationship with God, but not a specialized area of study and knowledge like this. For me choosing between different origin positions is like choosing between a PC and a Mac, or between Hillsong and Planet Shakers, or whether to wear the green shirt or the red shirt for Christmas at church. Interesting, maybe even important, but hardly something that would affect my relationship with God. I bring my origins position before the Holy Spirit and frankly, He always has far bigger concerns for my edification than that.
So that's my experience, and that's why I don't see any urgency to ask "why don't you read the Bible metaphorically? is it because you don't pray enough?" the way some of you treat literalism. If God has far more important things to do in your life than to get you to think about the relationship between Scripture and science, that's His problem not mine. If you want to discuss things with me I'd tell you what I believe and why I believe it; if you don't want to agree, I don't need to assume that it's because you're less holy or sincere than I am - just that maybe you're not as free and bored
as I am to think through things. How we live our lives is of far greater concern.