Dawkins makes an excellent point when he reminds us that myths always deal with the world we can see - since that is the world that our ancestors puzzled about most, there are no religious myths about cells or germs simply because our ancestors did not know they existed, they couldn't see them. The stars , trees, animals etc . on the other hand were all around and so the stories were made up around them. God - the supposed universe creator is envisioned in the Hebrew texts as wandering around one planet, in one garden, talking to two of his creations and taking a great interest in what they wear, eat and then gettig upset when they disobey. Myths are all about describing the limits of the human culture that creates them. Since the Hebrews were making up a story they could not have been expected to add in any details outside and beyond their cultural imagination. The Garden of Eden was even in their vicinity and the writers mentioned geological rivers and places they were familiar with. The Mormons borrowed that idea when they described a second Jerusalem in America.
Nothing in the bible shows the marks of supernatural writing, it contains nothing that advanced the creating culture's knowledge (indeed quite the opposite - it locked people into very focused ways of thinking) and its stories are no more imaginative than the writers of the time. Harry Potter contains far more original and exciting thoughts than the long descriptions of religious battles etc. In fact the stories about Jesus are decidely poor, there is little to convince or interest a modern day reader ( healing miracles aren't as effective as modern medicine and pills beat faith in clinical trials ) the concept of limited self sacrifice for eternal reward (the atonement - completed in a matter of hours for a reward that is eternal and therefore infinite) is unimpressive and distinctly distasteful to modern sensibilities - especially when we consider that mythical Jesus was pretty much stuck without choice - die horribly to appease his god and get a reward or fail miserably and live on as a charlatan to endure some eternal displeasure. To the moden reader - someone getting cruxified and flayed on their behalf - especially when they've not done very much bad during their modest and unassuming lives - is disgusting not simply that a god would require that particular form of punishment and torture but that the reason for it was to protect them from the same fate but spread out continually way past the modest hours Christ suffered to be infinite - all for doing not very much. This clearly has no element of justice, balance or fairness about it. Even human jail terms are given notional lengths. So the bible stories don't fit now. They never fitted the facts. They offer morals that have been clearly deconstructed by modern atheist thinkers and shown to be immoral and injurious to the individual or society that adopts them. They tell myths that never happened. It describes a future that equally will not exist. All beliefs rooted in this set of books are utterly fallacious no matter how fulfilling.
The bible would do well to be hastened on its way into the historical fiction section along with Beowulf.