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Originally posted by Philip:
6TH DAY: God brought the animals to Adam, after he made them.
‘Intelligent’ Adam named them all in a mere portion of that day, several thousands of animals and birds could have been named in several hours at most. (It is not said he named any ‘creeping’ things.)
God then created Eve, surgically from Adam, later that day.
There are no real contradictions between Genesis 1 and 2, albeit the 2 chapters are from different perspectives, ‘spiritually’ speaking. Chapter 1 gives the 7 day reality per se. Chapter 2 explains other abstracts, man the creature’s ‘loneliness’, ‘marriage’-bonding, etc.
It would not become ecstatically ‘good’ until the ‘wife’-mechanism was reflected, then resolved later that day, i.e., amidst the ‘naming of the animals’. (Note the exclamation of Adam as he names her ‘woman’)
Also, the command was future tense, in chapter 1, about being fruitful and multiplying, replenishing, etc. Chapter 2 invokes the primal mechanism of the reproduction process spoken in Chapter 1.
Also:
For the human gene-pool to be ‘inherent’ in Adam, i.e., with all its genetic variability (and so-called ‘mutation-spots’, etc.), for future cultural races (etc.),
does not seem to violate creationist nor mutationalistic logic (to my understanding).
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of
God created he him; male and female created he them.
Gen 1:28:: And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth
upon the earth.
No mention of Adam here (which is what I was getting at).
Gen 2:18:; And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast
of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them]
unto Adam to see what he would call them: and
whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was]
the name thereof.
In chapter two God makes all the beasts of the field for Adam,
after Adam is already there.
No mention of timescales.
If you view chapters 1 and 2 to relate the SAME story, then they
ARE contradictory ... or at least not entirely compatible.
Also in Gen Ch.2 It says that on the seventh day God admired
his work, but he hadn't made it rain, and there was no man
to till the fields.
That's AFTER day six when 'male and female created he them.'