  Yes, I have read Genesis two or three times in different versions, but, of course, I skipped some paragraphs that seem boring, like most of us.
Besides, most popular publishings of the Bible represent shorter translated versions of the original, and that's probably the cause of the misinterpretation by many people of what's written there. It says, it was "DARK". Doesn't dark mean just the absence of light? Many don't think so, and it's the first deviation of the original sense. Also it says, there was water with living there creatues; doesn't this imply that there was a planet Earth with life on it before the creation.
Moreover, I believe, it says, that the time of creation of Adam and Eve was not the first time God created life. Of course, I'm not saing that Mr. Asimov wrote the article on the spot. But as you mentioned before, he wrote it for dumb americans: he had to adopt. 
