What's Best Reconciliation of Gen 1 and 2 You've Heard?

That seems like an absurd statement. Facts are meaningful too.

I don't recall ever coming across a fact that did not have meaning.I guess I don't know what you are talking about.

and I now see that you were talking of metaphoric meaning, and of other kinds of secondary meaning.I wish you had made that clear in the first place. Facts are inherently meaningful, so your apparent statements to the contrary come across as obviously wrong. However, if you were referring to secondary meaning, then you might have a point.Let's connect this back to the topic we are supposed to be discussing. The Genesis 1 and 2 stories, even though factually false, can indeed have important secondary meanings.Note: I use "secondary" with respect to the way language works. What I am calling a secondary meaning could still be what the author(s) intended as their primary meaning.