Question

Hello Rabbi, in order to live peacefully with Darwin and evolution, we interpret the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) allegorically and do not attribute factual significance to the stories. That sounds fine with regard to the Flood story and the like, but if you look at the Torah objectively, you notice the importance it gives to factual and historical details—to the ages of the earliest human beings, down to the precision of when this or that child was born. And in general, throughout the Torah there is a great deal of attention to even the smallest details. So how can one suddenly claim that the Torah really came to convey an abstract way of life and not to serve as a history book? 
Beyond that, in the historical study of religion there are many psychological explanations for the formation of religion, its transmission from generation to generation, and the invention of myths such as the Exodus from Egypt. Why should we cling to Judaism in an almost fundamentalist way and not consider the alternative—that Judaism was invented a few thousand years ago like many other religions?