I’m pretty sure most of my Christian friends don’t believe that any of Genesis is literally true.
About a third of Americans believe “the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally,” explicitly contrasted with “the Bible is the inspired word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally.” Your friends are probably not a representative sample of Americans, and even then, a third is a minority, but it is a rather large minority. I know people in this category.
The next question is whether they really believe it or just believe in belief. If you press those people, will they bite the bullet and accept talking serpents and donkeys, surviving in whales, and trumpet blasts knocking down city walls? Yes, some of them really will, and there are certainly communities where this remains a majority belief.
About a third of Americans believe “the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally,” explicitly contrasted with “the Bible is the inspired word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally.” Your friends are probably not a representative sample of Americans, and even then, a third is a minority, but it is a rather large minority. I know people in this category.
The next question is whether they really believe it or just believe in belief. If you press those people, will they bite the bullet and accept talking serpents and donkeys, surviving in whales, and trumpet blasts knocking down city walls? Yes, some of them really will, and there are certainly communities where this remains a majority belief.