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28. If you read the Bible there are two stories of creation in Genesis. ...

Genesis creation narrative

The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth of both Judaism and Christianity.[1] It is made up of two parts, roughly equivalent to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis. In the first part, Genesis 1:1 through Genesis 2:3, Elohim, the generic Hebrew word for God, creates the world in six days, then rests on, blesses and sanctifies the seventh day. God creates by spoken command ("Let there be...&quot , suggesting a comparison with a king, who has only to speak for things to happen,[2] and names the elements of the cosmos as he creates them, in keeping with the common ancient concept that things did not really exist until they had been named.[3]

In the second, Genesis 2:4–24 God, referred to by the personal name "Yahweh", shapes the first man from dust, places him in the Garden of Eden, and breathes his own breath into the man who thus becomes נֶפֶש nephesh, a living being; man shares nephesh with all creatures, but only of man is this life-giving act of God described.[4] The man names the animals, signifying his authority within God's creation, and God forms the first woman, whom the man names "Eve", from the man's body by taking one of the man's ribs.[5]

A common hypothesis among biblical scholars is that the first major comprehensive draft of the Pentateuch (the series of five books which begins with Genesis and ends with Deuteronomy) was composed in the late 7th or the 6th century BC (the Yahwist source) and that this was later expanded by other authors (the Priestly source) into a work very like the one we have today.[6] (In the creation narrative the two sources appear in reverse order: Genesis 1:1–2:3 is Priestly and Genesis 2:4–24 is Yahwistic).[7] Borrowing themes from Mesopotamian mythology, but adapting them to Israel's belief in one God,[8] the combined narrative is a critique of the Mesopotamian theology of creation: Genesis affirms monotheism and denies polytheism.[9] Robert Alter described the combined narrative as "compelling in its archetypal character, its adaptation of myth to monotheistic ends".[10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_creation_narrative

Most Christians usually combine both stories into one and tend to ignore the obvious differences between the two.

I have actually read the Bible several times in my life and supplemented my reading with a good study guide that isn't afraid to discuss such differences. I have found the Bible to be an interesting book that contains a lot of wisdom on how to lead a good life and help others. I have never viewed it as a history book or a text on science.