In that era was there anydistinction made between knoledge of tradition and knoledge of science?
Not being a historian of the era, I would not make a definitive statement, but I think there probably was. But whether or not there was, that doesn't do anything for your assertion that the theory of evolution is a creation myth. You're still in the position of saying a myth and scientific theory are equivalent, and so far you haven't said anything that gives credence to that assertion.
There was a time when theroy was less formally developed , in th time of Aristotle there was no especial need felt to prove by experiment what pure logic produed.
What Moses knew from his Egyptian education incuded the best theroys of sciene availible , what he knew from revilation of God one would have to suppose to be infallible.
Yet even though God would certainly have understood the details of his creation , was Moses ready to understand an explanation that we would unerstand to be scientific?
Probly not to my thinking , Moses got the best explanation he could possibly have understood.
If Moses were presently graduating from Princeton with doctorates in several feilds , God could use more tecnical terms and up to date demonstrations of principals , getting much further down the roads of knoledge before haveing to stop at the point that Moses was not prepared to adzob any more.
For all that the story of genisis includes some interesting parallel parts with recent science.
In the beginning God ...
Earlyer than the first few moments of the big bang , we still have little idea of the history of the universe It can be supposed that before the big bang there was no matter and no energy therefore no space and no time .
Butthere was darkness and void and Go moveing aross the void.
Perhaps this just a good guess.
In an other Chapter Jacob gets a job as a top hand on a ranch owned by his father in law , hi pay was to be all the calves that were born that year of a particular color.
But when Jacobs share was the white calves , all of the calves were white , next year when his share was the spotted calves , all of the calves were spotted , and so on every year untill his father in law owned only the oldest cows and Jacobs share was a motly herd of young cows equal in number to the original herd.
This could be taken as a miricle , or it could be that Jacob was a canny cattleman with an early understanding of the power of selection on genes , it would not be hard for a cowboy who understood selective breeding to hobble all the bulls that were not the desired color , and this would be in caricter for Jacob .
There are other stronger evidences that the power of selective breeding is anchient knoledge , several breeds of Dog and cattle an plant are very changed from the wild form from earlyer dates than Moses. I would Guess that Moses knew that selection can exegerate the expession of a caricteristic in an animal , but Moses seems to reject the also common theroy of the time that diffrent animals were interspecies cross breeds.
