From a netfriend:

Lets just have a quick look at the bible. Genesis 2, second part of verse 4 onwards (the second account of creation)

In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up-for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground etc etc detailing the creation of the Garden of Eden and Adam, all on that day.

So did God create in seven days or one day?

If the first two chapters of Genesis cannot agree on the chronolgy, why does anyone expect that these are scientific, literal, historical accounts of what happened before there was anyone around to take notes?

For Gods sake, these are myths. Important, foundational myths but not history, certainly not science, and no-one until at least the early Roman Empire would have taken them as such. History was invented by the Romans, Science by the Greeks. But both these civilisations looked to myth much more than to science or history. It is only our modern Western culture which has elevated rational thought above myth to the eventual almost demise of the latter, much to our detriment. If you want proof, try living in a society that is futher from our European heritage for a while, say in S-E Asia. You will be amazed.

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