But Genesis wasn't written as a science book.
It was simply God's declaration to being....God.
god did not write genesis ,,,,,, [insert double facepalm here]
it was written by at a minimum of 5 different authors over hundreds of years after being told orally for hundreds of years. These fictitious fables were taken from egypt and sumerian cultures as well as others and twisted to meet the ancient hebrews needs and language. The ancient hebrew people were tribes, they had nothing of there own and needed a religion when there civilization grew large enough to need one. They created the religion and the mythical angry jealous god in my opinion.
Distribution of materials of Jahwist, Elohist and Priestly sources, as well as Redactor's contribution in the first four books, following Richard Friedman.
For much of the 20th century Wellhausen's hypothesis formed the framework within which the origins of the Pentateuch were discussed, and even the
Vatican came to urge that "light derived from recent research" not be neglected by Catholic scholars, urging them especially to pay attention to "the
sources written or oral" and "the
forms of expression" used by the "sacred writer".
[41] Some important modifications were introduced, notably by
Albrecht Alt and
Martin Noth, who argued for the oral transmission of ancient core beliefs—guidance out of Egypt, conquest of the Promised Land, covenants, revelation at Sinai/Horeb, etc.
[42] Simultaneously, the work of the American
Biblical archaeology school under
William F. Albright seemed to confirm that even if
Genesis and
Exodus were only given their final form in the first millennium BC, they were still firmly grounded in the material reality of the second millennium.
[43] The overall effect of such refinements was to aid the wider acceptance of the basic hypothesis by reassuring believers that even if the final form of the Pentateuch was late and not due to Moses himself, it was nevertheless possible to recover a credible picture of the period of Moses and of the patriarchal age. Hence, although challenged by scholars such as
Umberto Cassuto, opposition to the documentary hypothesis gradually waned, and by the mid-twentieth century it was almost universally accepted.
[44]
Documentary hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
make no mistake,, ,moses work is a patchwork of wishfull thinking and want
Educated people, scholars and historians came up with this information
Can you refute these with something other then your imagination????? or a question???
LOOK you can go about this educated or not, here is both sides of the story so that your not so ignorant to the facts at hand
The Straight Dope: Who wrote the Bible? (Part 1)
Timeline of Old Testament History