Maybe it's all just a nice story to explain why we are here--after all, Moses' people could not have comprehended the mechanisms of evolution and the Big Bang if God would have revealed that to him.
Well, I totally agree with you in that these creation myths were orally handed down, borrowed from other cultures and expanded on to include the people's idea of God and the beginning of the world and humankind and then were written by DIFFERENT writers, all in a spiritually inspired attempt to make sense of the world around them.
I can't understand how anyone can take Genesis as science.
When you think about it, what kind of truths do you expect to find in the Bible?
Historical facts? NO
Scientific truth? NO
What I do expect to find in the bible is MORAL TRUTH-but even some of those have been revised as we've evolved as a people. We no longer condone slavery or the taking of many wives, or treating woman as property. But for those who read the Bible literally, these things are OK because they are in the Bible??