My big fat Webster's dictionary uses the word "parable" in its definition of the word "allegory," which I had to look up! So I guess yes, I really meant "allegory" ... according to my dictionary, that's what a "parable" is.
Perhaps a study of Hebrew confirms what you say. Therefore, the earth is 5,000 years old? All I can say, is then, that the Hebrew code is being misread by men, because I no more believe, or think God would be impressed if I did, that the world is 5,000 years old than I believe that the sun revolves around the earth. God gave us brains, He made us in His image, and brainy guys like Darwin (who was a Christian, not an atheist) use and have used that gift from God to observe the world around them. Sometimes what they observe doesn't square-up with man's literal interpretation of the bible's representation of the physical world.
Apparently you think it's more Christ-like or God-like to ignore what God-given intelligence and reason reveals is truth regarding the physical world, and accept instead the word of theolgians and academics who believe they know the secrets of how God performs His miracles? The value of the bible is its moral guidance. It is a handbook that tells us how we can thrive. It is no more a physical textbook than a cookbook is a review of restaurants.
If evolution negated the moral teachings of Christ and the Bible, I'd be troubled in my heart. But indeed, evolution rather confirms them in an abstract sense: adapt and survive; fail to adapt and perish. Human societies that adapt to God's laws -- although they may seem at odds with the "natural" world and its own rules of kill-or-be-killed -- thrive, and will always survive. Those that don't, are doomed to experience strife and ultimately, destruction. Look at our own American culture. The farther we stray from God's moral laws, the more unstable we become.
Certainly Godless governments such as Communism are inevitably doomed to cave in on themselves -- it doesn't take a rocket scientist, or Hebrew scholars, to figure that one out.
What really puzzles me is ... why is the prospect that God formed us slowly through time via other of His creations, so horrifying to so many Christians? It is not taking another god before God; it is not worshipping a graven image. It is a challenge to men who presume to interpret God's word for everyone else. Evolution doesn't challenge God, it challenges men.
The earth is approx. 6000 years old. That is what the Bible geneologies indicate, and that is what the physical evidence says.
If you use the preferred rock dating methods on newly cooled volcanic rocks in Hawaii, or Washington, it will tell you that those rocks are 300 million years old, so where is the credibility of the method? If you ask the psuedo-scientists why, they will simply assert that the test doesn't work on new rock; are you buying? Where is the common sense?
BTW, Darwin was a practicing occultist, until he became terminally ill, at which time he admitted that his theory had huge holes in it.
My God was and is powerful enough to do things exactly as he said in his word.