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For example, pull a rational dovetailing of stories that puts australopithecus into the fall in Eden.

Research the 'gap theory'. It says there's an indeterminate amount of time between Gen.1:1 and 1:2. There are theological reasons for this, stemming from the use of the Hebrew word for 'darkness' in v.2. Very interesting and compelling theory.

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Then there's Dake's theory of a creation, a ruin, and a recreation: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was (Dake="became") without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep."

"The earth BECAME without form and void" = some kind of catastrophe.

(1) earth created (2) became with form and void (3) God does some recreating (Let there be light....etc.)