Steve--Sorry that I didn't get back to you faster with the Biblical citations, but I 
am still unpacking after moving and cannot locate my Bible.  Anyway, your will find 
the two versions  right near the beginning of Genesis.  They are right together, so 
you have to notice that you go through one path leading up towards humans, and then 
the story recycles with another story leading up to humans.   Let me know if this 
doesn't help.  The Bible is around here somewhere!

Trisha Keith-Spiegel

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On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Patricia Keith-Spiegel wrote:
>
> I send the
> complaining students to the book of Genesis where they will
> find not one, but TWO stories of the creation.  I ask them to
> locate the one where life starts out as firmament, then comes
> along things swimming in the sea, and after that some crawl
> up onto firm ground, then some fly, then come along humans at
> the very end of the process.

I've heard this claim of two creation stories in the Bible
before, probably on TIPS, but for the life of me, I could only
think of one--the Adam and Eve story. I suppose I could follow
the directions given and read the book of Genesis, but it might
save time if someone could provide me with chapter and verse.

As these stories are presumably contradictory or at least
different accounts, I wonder how those who accept the Bible as
literal truth reconcile them. I'm not asking to be provocative,
but out of curiosity.  How can two different accounts of how God
made the world and all its creatures both be true? And if one is
false, how does this square with the belief that the Bible
contains the inerrant word of God?

(Forgive me, I didn't mean to restart the religion thread.
Perhaps we'll have to change the name of TIPS to Theology in
Psychological Science).

-Stephen
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