I agree Adrian,these people were writing about oral traditions and what was then their view or interpretation on such matters of creation,the first humans,and the beginning of languages (tower of babel) just to name a few.These were really at least in their part of the world their version of science in a pre scientific age.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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