gengwall

I also see a problem in Genesis 2 if the passage is not allowed to be fit together with Genesis 1. Genesis 2 is primarily sequential and there is no food provided for animals until after Adam is created.

Well, Cheryl, I think you are employing some presumptive reasoning. You presume 24 hour days so you presume that the period between the mist falling over the earth to water the seeds and the forming of the man occurred within hours of each other (i.e. not long enough for the plants to sprout or the man to get too hungry). I don’t argue with the sequential aspect (or order) of the narrative but there is no data to determine the time interval. It is very possible that God misted the earth, millions of years passed (and the mist continued) in which animals and plants thrived (but were not “subdued”), and the result was a wild but quite alive earth for Adam to see at his birth. I have no problem with the rest of the account (Adam seeing much more than Eve was privy to).