God is NOT the Creator?

This article at Telegraph has me thinking...

"Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" is not a true translation of the Hebrew. She claims she has carried out fresh textual analysis that suggests the writers of the great book never intended to suggest that God created the world -- and in fact the Earth was already there when he created humans and animals."

If we are STILL not sure what the words in the bible actually mean, how is it so many people treat it as a book of facts?

"She said technically "bara" does mean "create" but added: "Something was wrong with the verb.

"God was the subject (God created), followed by two or more objects. Why did God not create just one thing or animal, but always more?"

"She concluded that God did not create, he separated: the Earth from the Heaven, the land from the sea, the sea monsters from the birds and the swarming at the ground.

"There was already water," she said."

Certainly this will spark "robust debate" as the article claims. What I want to know is, if scholars still are not universally convinced of what the bible says in the very first verse, what else have they interpreted incorrectly?