hmmm. You hit the nail on the head for the origin of the Bible.
hmmm. You hit the nail on the head for the origin of the Bible.
That coupled with an ignorance of how the world works. So they made up stories to explain things, doing the best they could to come up with stories to make sense of it all. The people who made up the stories that became Genesis were clearly trying to come up with answers to questions like, "Where did we come from." They made up a power god, his nemesis, created fanciful tales to explain such things as origins, diversity of languages, etc. Given their lack of sophistication, technology-wise, they did what they could to make sense of the world.
The authors of the Genesis stories had an inquisitiveness about the world but were merely saddled with the handicap of living in a time where they didn't have the knowledge and tools to adequately answer these questions. Compared that to their putative descendants, such as the modern-day creationist. These people have been given the gift of living in an age where the technology and science exists to begin to really answer these questions for real, no made up fairy stories, and they just... spit... it away.
These YECs and other of their ilk blind themselves, clamp their hands over their ears and kill any spark of inquisitiveness in them, shunning true answers out of a fear that somewhere along the line they may have to contemplate unpleasant things.