Don

I never said “created then formed”. I was only saying the 2 creation accounts use different terms, which are not identical in meaning or application; and I was trying to be precise by using the English equivalents of the Biblical terms.

I used the term “split” in trying to counteract the KJV “myth” of a rib, when a better translation is side, as the same term was used for a side of the tabernacle.

People may mix Scripture with anything else, that was not the question as far as I can see, it was how to interpret some text and how tight or loose to interpret some words and phrases and text. If I see a metaphor where you do not, then obviously, we will interpret the text differently. If I contrast the Hebrew creation narratives with pagan ones and you do not, we may see the text differently. And so forth.