Take a look at Stan Tenen's web site
http://www.meru.org/. His theory is that God was even smarter than that. He embedded the answer to the question of the universe in the first few letters of Genesis, in Hebrew. Even the letters themselves and the way they are formed has significance. The story that is also conveyed by the words is simple enough to be handed down from generation to generation until we had advanced enough to understand it. Stan has found evidence that we were smart enough about 200 years ago, but the knowledge was lost again. The beauty of God's plan is that this knowledge is encapsulated in a vessel that will survive the ages.