I believe the standard christian apologitic response is that Genesis 1 is a chronological account, while Genesis 2 is not...
in the specific verses...2:18-19
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18And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19And 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.
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from the KJV at BibleGateway.com
according to apologetics, God does not make man then think that he should create the animals...he thinks ahead before he even creates man.
I can't seem to find the specific tektonics explanation though...I think that's where I first heard this explanation a while back
I haven't studied Genesis thoroughly, I've only read it..so I don't know how this "genesis 1 is in order and genesis 2 is not in order" holds up.
I would guess that NotReady is familiar with this supposed contradiction and knows more than I do.
EDIT: here's my
Big thread of holy book contradictions, errors, etc. from a while back...we didn't make much progress thanks to txag [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]