Got to love thread creep. I fall into the allegorical mode as well. It makes sense the more and more we know about human and society evolution.
Actually, if you keep up with evolutionary 'science', evolution is falling apart as biologists learn more about the complexities of life. 'We' do not 'know' anything about human and societal 'evolution', 'we' 'believe' it.
1. God created man in his own image from the dust of the earth- we know that God isn't a bipedal hominid. He is spirit. That part of creation is God infusing man with spirit, separating him from the animals (making him more than dust of the earth, more than from dust to dust).
Actually, Jesus was definitely a bipedal hominid who said, "Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?"
2. Man named the animals (as another comment discussed). Man acquiring language to describe his universe. This opens up the world to him, it opens up his mind to explore and pass along knowledge.
Man was created with language. Ancient languages are universally more complex than 'modern' languages. It is simply a belief that man is 'advancing'.
3. The fall through eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil is Man acquiring moral judgement. He becomes more than an animal. A cat being cruel to a mouse it captured isn't considered immoral but man doing the same thing is. Because we have moral judgment.
Adam and Eve were already more than animals before they fell. They learned evil, something they did not know before the fall.
4. The story of Cain and Able (sic), this can really go far into the story of the move from a hunter/gatherer life into civilization and farming. The conflict of man to become more civilized...
Cain was already a farmer while Abel was a herdsman. Cain went off and built a city. The fall resulted in man becoming less civilized, not more.
..and thus the story goes on..
Well, the evolutionary version always turns it all upside down so that people believe they are 'advancing' and becoming 'more civilized' when they are actually regressing and becoming less civilized...