Creation

But science disagrees with the that very first verse in the Bible because the earth was not created in the beginning. There's billions of years between the beginning of the universe and the beginning of the earth.

Its a singular beginning, since they were both created in it, they were created at the same moment. It does not say that the heaven and the earth were created in beginnings. Those are not beginnings. The earth was created in the beginning, growing events are another thing.Edited by Cat Sci, : No reason given.

Can you list the verses in the Bible in chronological order?

Can you list the verses in the Bible in the order in which they occurred in time?Like this:Gen 1:1
Gen 2:4 - ?
Gen 1:2 - Gen 2:3
Gen 5? - ???Edited by Cat Sci, : No reason given.

Where does the text say to omit Gen 4:25-26 from the history of that day?So this is how it goes:Gen 1:1
Gen 2:4 - Gen 4:24or26
Gen 1:2 - Gen 2:3Then it goes to Gen 5?

The idea is that the Garden of Eden story occurred first, during a gap between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2. Then god reset the earth and created a new male and female in his own image, which lead down the lineage to the Flood and on to today. There was some excuse about "Adam" in Gen 5 just meaning "a man" and totally not being the guy that was named Adam in Gen 2.He's lining up Gen 2:4 with Gen 1 as both being in the same day that god created the heavens and the earth. And he's lining up Gen 5:1-2 with Gen 1:27 as being the same timeframe when God made male and female in his own image.So the chronology would be as I wrote:Gen 1:1
Gen 2:4 - Gen 4:24*
Gen 1:2 - Gen 2:3
Gen 5 onwards.The problem that he never got around was that Gen 4:25-26 ends with:

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And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

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And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

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While Gen 5 starts with:

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And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

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And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

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And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

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And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos:

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So we'd have to have two different Adams, who both had sons named Seth who both had sons named Enos. I think he ended our last discussion with that not being impossible, so he was still right.This time around though, he decided to just chop those last two verses off of his narrative and have Gen 4 end at verse 24*.I was asking where the text said to do that.

How so?

I disagree. The first two chapters in Genesis are not in any chronological order.Also, according to history, Chapter 2 was actually written before Chapter 1. So you have speculated that there is no conflict, not "eliminated" it, correct?

If I say:"Just like Star Trek had the Prime Directive, if we find life on another planet then we need to be careful."Am I claiming that Star Trek is a real thing that actually happened?
Or can I just be referencing a commonly understood fiction?
Given that Star Trek is not real, would I be lying to say what I said?I don't think so: Star Trek really does have a Prime Directive. We all just know that I'm referencing fiction.Perhaps Paul was doing the same?

So there's "The Earth", which is our world. Then there is the "earth", which is the land in our world.In verse 1, our world was formless and void - that tells me that it existed but it hadn't physically existed as land yet.It isn't until verse 9 that the land is talked about being seen, which implies that it didn't physically exist as land until the third day.As I see it: our world was created on the first day but the land didn't exist until the third.