Don

I have stated before and again now that I cannot find a way to integrate the 2 Creation stories starting in Gen 1 and Gen 2:4 into a single narrative because of the different sequential ordering of items in each narrative, rather, I see them as 2 narratives that are both true and then try to see how that can be. My resolution (and many others) is to see them less literally than you do and is why I gave the biologos link.

I have also stated that I understand Gen 1 along the lines proposed in “Paradigms on Pilgrimage” which is a very basic and simple way of understanding it and is how I believe the original readers would have understood it.