"The biblical version of creation seems to have been grossly cropped and poorly translated."

Hmmm. I'm not sure how one would arrive at that conclusion. Cropped of what?

As I said earlier, the one thing I find compelling about the Biblical creation story is that it lacks any of that telling-of-a-strange-tale -- any of the how-the-bear-lost-its-tale stuff that would smack of mythology.

Instead, the Bible account is pretty matter-of-fact. It lacks thunder and lightning as show, just as it lacks slight-of-hand. It doesn't really even claim to be exhaustive -- merely narrative -- "this happened, and then that happened". Again, it lacks a storytelling flare that would, if present, to my mind, make it more Uncle Remus, and less God-the-Father.