As the previous posters say land animals came before birds. Genesis one isn't about sequences. The sacred writers purposefully placed stumbling blocks in the writing to take certain ideas off the table. Genesis two isn't about sequences either (my bad interpretation included) but it does refute the idea that man was created ex nihilo.
I always understood that it was the universe that was created Ex nihilo, not man.
Genesis one isn't about sequences. The sacred writers purposefully placed stumbling blocks in the writing to take certain ideas off the table.
That's interesting. I never heard anyone say Genesis was a puzzle. It's been taken literally, and as an allegory, but as a puzzle? /p>