Don

I was not advocating either. My point was simply that both Jews and Christians before the modern scientific age figured out that the days in the first creation account MIGHT not be normal (24 hour) days, and they did this strictly from textual clues, they cannot be accused of conforming to the modern culture.

In Gen 1 animals are CREATED before Adam, in Gen 2 animals are FORMED after Adam and then Adam is split forming male and female. In the Gen 2-3 story, the man knows more than the woman and I think this is important to the story, as you also say.