A bad author doesn't show his characters in play, he only tells us (e.g. "Eric was a ratbag").
A good author shows us his characters in play through dialog, action and circumstances (e.g. "As Eric mounted the stairs he noticed the edge of Gwendolen's shawl dragging on the floor in front of him. He put his foot on it.")
God is a good author.
The creation account shows us.
The folklorists think he's a bad author, and can only tell us and not show us.
They think that the creation account is about something else. And so it tells us noting about something, but something about nothing.
