You are limiting God if you think He is not outside of Time, with the ability to reckon how the Word would be read, thousands of years after it was written. So, to say that the Hebrews knew nothing of apes in Africa -- God would want people to know the truth as He knew the Word would survive through time. Unfair of me to expect your metaphysical reading of the Word, yet this is the perspective of God outside of Time and of all Wisdom.
I think it's bizarre you think your deity created everything by a mechanism that was intelligible to a pastoral tribe that lived over 3000 years ago in one very small region of the middle east. Doesn't it bother you that, had you not been born in a particular part of the world at a particular time, your religion would be entirely different? How can you claim this is metaphysical, when you are arguing it purely beause of the accidental circumstances of your birth?