There are some who want us to believe that Genesis 1-10 is not history, but allegory and myths. Conversely, the stories of Abraham and Jacob and Joseph, (the last 40 chapters of Genesis) are accepted as history. As my colleague at school (Matt Doel) said to me once, “Where do you draw the line between history and allegory?” Does it matter?

Who got it right? Jesus, Paul, the disciples, and all the Old Testament authors, or the opponents of Genesis 1- 11 who deny its literal history. Jesus believed in a literal creation. He referred to Adam and Eve, Abel and Cain, the creation of the world as per Genesis. He believed in Noah and the flood and made specific reference to them. Check out what He believed here: Mark 10:6, Matt 19:4-5, Matt 23:35, Matthew 24:37-39,
Luke, an historian, traces history through the 70 men who are physically related to Jesus, going back through David, Abraham, Noah, and ending with “Adam, the son of God.” This is basically a genealogical timeline of the world from the beginning of creation to Jesus. Luke clearly sees all these names as real men who conceived sons with their wives. This genealogy lists the chain links of history.

Furthermore, Luke goes on in his next section to show us that both Jesus and Adam hold similar roles in the history of the world. Luke assumes his readers know about the history recorded in Genesis 3 (the temptation of the “first man” by Satan in a bountiful garden), so that they will understand what happened to Jesus (the temptation of the “last man” by Satan in a wilderness, the barren result of God’s curse on His creation).
The point here is that Luke is intimately aware of the history recorded in Genesis. According to Luke, all the people he lists in his genealogy are real people who lived at real times whose actions had real consequences. This is, after all, what good historians do: they show how different events that happen in history are related.

Other instances of Jesus referencing Genesis in the Gospels are: Matthew 22:21; Mark 12:17; Luke 20:25—mankind is in the image of God. Matthew 23:35; Luke 11:51—Jesus references Abel as a historical, righteous person, and the first of the martyrs. Matthew 24:37–39; Luke 17:26–27—Jesus compares His second coming to the time of Noah’s Flood. Matthew 26:52—Jesus references Genesis 9:6 when he says, “Those who draw the sword will die by the sword.” Mark 13:19—Jesus references God creating the world. Luke 10:19—Jesus gives the disciples authority to tread on serpents. John 8:44—The devil is a liar and a murderer ‘from the beginning’

So, there are at a minimum 8 significant references Jesus makes to Genesis 1–11. This does not tell the whole story, of course and most of them only make sense if Jesus is referencing them as history. At a minimum, we can say: Jesus believes that God created the world, and that mankind was ‘male and female’ ‘from the beginning of creation’, and this tells us something normative about marriage. The devil is ‘the father of lies’ and a murderer—he has something to do with why humans die, and ‘treading on serpents’ is somehow linked to the demons being subject to the disciples. Abel was a real person and was the first martyr. The Flood was a real, cataclysmic event that killed all people on earth outside the Ark.
Jesus clearly interpreted Scripture plainly and used it in a way that was consistent with a historical record. Combine this with an absolute absence of Jesus ever disagreeing with anything in Scripture, and we have pretty good grounds for claiming that Jesus believed all of Genesis.