First, I would suggest at least a reading of the Wikipedia article on Genesis. Next, take note of these facts and feel free to look into them on your own:
1. No one knows who wrote the book of Genesis. No one. Traditional authorship is assigned to Moses but the text does not claim that, and various problems occur if that is assumed. Historians claim it is the compiled works of various authors, which makes more sense but still has no concrete evidence.
2.There is not one single piece of any Old Testament Scripture older than the 3rd century B.C.E. in existance today. In other words, no concrete evidence that the scriptures even existed before that time. Supposing Moses was the author, he would have lived approximately 1400 years before Jesus, according to Ussher's chronology. That gives us over a thousand years of textual silence. Nothing. Nada.
3. So, what if it was written by a man named Moses who claimed to have a divine revelation? Why should I believe it any more than I believe any other claim of divine revelation, whether by Joseph Smith or any other crackpot..um prophet? As Thomas Paine would say, a revelation to one is not necessarily a revelation to all. (I highly recommend a reading of The Age of Reason.)
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