You can find a reasonably extensive set of passages from the pre-400AD famous Christians about how the genesis story is supposed to be interpreted allegorically

You can find a reasonably extensive set of passages from the pre-400AD famous Christians about how the genesis story is supposed to be interpreted allegorically and not literally on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_interpretations_of_Genesis#Ancient_Christian_interpretations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_interpretations_of... Of course, they would not consider the allegory an "error" in the same way that modern fundamentalists would. It is not a fringe belief/conspiracy theory that biblical literalism is a relatively new Christian tradition, but rather well accepted fact among religious historians.