Why Creationists don't realize the biblical Creation is just jewish mythology?

[Anomalocaris]

...but wouldn't dream of giving greek or hindu mythology a chance on the grounds that, the claims were "mysterious" metaphores not to be taken literally...

Anyone who reads and appreciates Greek myths knows that Greek myths are so poignant precisely because they are metaphors that match up with reality (pretty well sometimes). Even the Ancient Greeks knew this. Perhaps even the ancient Israelites knew this. The only ones stupid enough to actually take God literally may be Christian fundamentalists.

I am not sure that is true.

I suspect any religion which attain something of a status of justification for social morality will stimulate a particular disagreeable kind of people who always exist as some percentage of every society who are inclined to think it makes them holier than their fellows to take the myths of that religion more literally than their fellows.

However that same sort of people who tend to be more fundamentalist than others also tend to be stupider, less creative, less likable, and less capable of achievements of lasting value than their fellows, so once their society passes into history their existence would tend to be the least remembered, unless it were for the atrocities they perpetrate. So when we look back on any past age with fondness, we tend to see a biased image where enlightenment of lasting value is remembered for their continued utility, and relative fundamentalism is forgotten precisely because they are incapable of making things of lasting value.