What I think is most interesting is just where the Bible came from, and where all the stories, transitions, and myths in the Bible have evolved from. For instance, the story of the garden of Eden is now believed to be the oldest tale in history; it essentially describes cavemen evolving into civilized people, and the people themselves describing what happened.
The story of the making of the Bible is much deeper than that, Egyptians controlled Israel/Judae around the time the Bible began to take its infancy. The ruler of Egypt at the time transitioned their religion into type of monotheistic religion, with the sun god being the "creator". It is known that the Israelites first called God by the name "El", and he was simply a superior god.
Here is the key part, no where in the beginning of Genesis does it say that light is good, but later it does. This is a direct correspondence with the sun god, because the sun god was the creator of life. And after the Egyptian rulers death, they went back to ruling many gods and Israel became independent in their own right.
The idea is the idea of monotheism was started in Egypt, carried over into Israel, and then evolved to incorporate a single God. The name "El" appears in the bible many times with references to other gods, for instance the worshipping of Bael the bull god to the north of Israel. The rest of the Bible incorporates songs and customs from the ancient world that have evolved and been expanded upon.
One example that the history channel described was the mentioning of God creating man twice. Once in his image...where he made man and women. And once using the sand. It is known that the first acts of worship were to gods that were animal like, and eventually transitioned into human like forms. This is a direct representation of that.
As for God making man twice, he also made women twice. The whole account was lost around that time, but a reference to it was in the Zorath, that Adam actually had a second wife! His first wife's name was Lilith, she got pissed at him because he always wanted to be on top when having sex, and she wanted to be on top. She ran off, became a demon, and was believed to be responsible for killing children.
Lullaby comes from the Latin words which mean "Lilith be gone", so our ancestors knew about this woman and it broke off and became a completely different story. Its just amazing, almost all the stories in the world have come from a single source.
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