Well, we could start in Genesis.
Genesis 1:25-26
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 2:18-19
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
So which came first, beasts or man?
(I have about five hundred of these.)
One can interpret Scripture coherently or incoherently. One who interprets it incoherently is naturally going to dismiss all of it as only coincidentally persuasive.
Obama, on the other hand, starts from a presumption of coherence, in that he claims to believe Scripture has authority. If that is the case, then one doesn’t get to pick and choose willy-nilly the parts one likes. He needs to show how the parts he likes trump the parts he doesn’t, or he needs to drop the argument.
Dismissing the first chapter of Romans as obscure is not a good way to begin that explanation, if he means for his argument to be taken seriously.
Those looking for any fig leaf to justify what they’ve already decided, though, will take it and run.
“And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.”
There is no conflict...the first verse clearly stated that God created the animals...the second reaffirmed the creation and then added the naming of animals.
Ok...now for the other 499.
I have some homework for you. How many contradictions can you find in a college text book on integral calculus?