Is there something about the culture of ancient Israel I don't understand here?

[Klax (The only thing that matters is faith expressed in love.)]

@03Cobra

Three points:

1. The early chapters of Genesis cannot be literal history. This is evident from the fact that there are two creation stories with different orders and methods of creation. They are incompatible with each other as literal history.
2. Jesus was not here to correct the erroneous views of people on science and history, so He made no effort to correct the views. His doing so would have been a distraction from His real mission,
3. I suspect Paul and other leaders of the early church accepted the stories as literal history, but they did not know as much as we do about the history of earth and humankind.

I agree except that He had no occult knowledge of science and history and could therefore make no such effort. He was fully enculturatedly human and knew quantitatively what His culture knew. Which was of extremely low quality. Qualitatively He knew what His divine nature availed Him. Which was of the Highest.