I know that within much of Protestant Christianity, there are two approaches to the apparent ancient cosmology in the Old and New Testaments. (Things like the sky being viewed as a solid dome with waters above it, and the stars being literally within the sky as opposed to far above it.)

Some choose concordism, that is to say that a proper interpretation of both scripture and science will ultimately harmonize. Some see things like the Big Bang being described within scripture.

Personally I do not find that interpretation tenable, so I elect for the concept of divine accommodation. This view suggests that God was evidently not interested in giving the ancient Israelites a science lesson, but rather chose to reveal things in terms they could understand. (And hey, if God did want to give us a science lesson today, I'm sure we would be just as ill-equipped to receive it.) For a good resource about this issue, see this lecture: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCAQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dtel7eJGTF8I&ei=bIZ1UMnaOufWyQGlrYHwAw&usg=AFQjCNHlKMY4Dioq_JmAcC-qP6K5rwqgyg&sig2=Y9sUr8j9UEp04jEPIyS3rg

So then, I wonder if something like this could be workable for the apparent "problem" Mormonism has about God's supposed fleshy body somewhere. Does it seem to you that such a concept could be an accommodation, or does it truly need to point to something objective somewhere in the physical universe? That point doesn't seem to be incidental, but rather is a central message being communicated. (i.e. the object being described, not a metaphor to describe something else)

I thought this idea was more central to Mormonism than you make it sound like. Isn't one of the core goals of a Mormon to achieve a similar reign on another planet/world with one's family?