Are creation stories more than just explanations of how the world came to be?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I mean, read Genesis 1 and then read the Enuma Elish. These are clearly societies that had very different ideas about the natural and moral order of the universe, even though they conceived of the technical process of creation in similar and indeed related ways.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

In addition to the structural similarities to Genesis 1, parts of the Enuma Elish are also remarkably similar to the story of Uranus and Cronus. What's done to Tiamat also reminds one of Ymir in Norse mythology.