Man devolved from Adam - he never evolved from some magical primordial soup devoid of life.
The Bible says "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but Isn't it strange how the further we get from God, the more "wise" man thinks he's getting?
No. Man evolved from primordial or archaic sapiens.
The Bible describes ancient near east cosmology and is not a science textbook.
Below the firmament, who's grounding I have made firm, a house I shall build, let it be the abode of my pleasure. Within it I shall establish It's holy place, I shall appoint my holy chambers, I shall establish my kingship.
Your chamber shall be our stopping place, we shall find rest therein
Let's look at some more verses on the raqia:
And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
Genesis 1:6
God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:7-8
And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,
Genesis 1:14
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 7:11
the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,
Genesis 8:2
And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the dome of the sky.”
Genesis 1:20
And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And the Lord stood beside him [or stood above it] and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring;
Genesis 28:12-13
and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.
Exodus 24:10
Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror?
Job 37:18
Hast thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
Job 37:18
can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze?
Job 37:18
Yet in all the world their line goes out, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has pitched a tent for the sun,
Psalms 19:4
Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!
Psalms 148:4
Praise Yah. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty firmament.
Psalms 150:1
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in;
Isaiah 40:22
Over the heads of the angels there was something like a dome, shining like crystal, spread out above their heads.
Ezekiel 1:22
And above the dome over their heads there was something like a throne, in appearance like sapphire stone; and seated above the likeness of a throne was something that seemed like a human form.
Ezekiel 1:26
And I looked, and look! On the expanse that was above the head of the cherubim something like a stone of sapphire, and like the appearance of the shape of a throne it appeared above them.
Ezekiel 10:1
He made firm the skies above, When the springs of the deep became fixed, When He set for the sea its boundary So that the water would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth;
Proverbs 8:27-29
The sky vanished like a scroll rolling itself up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
Revelation 6:14
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