[RightWhale]

The explanation given for how God created the heavens, earth, and various creatures is little more than a few paragraphs long.

Right, but it doesn't stop there. In the 2nd chapter there is a different version of the story. And then later there is John, and that is a whole different tradition. It gets very deep, or we can compartmentalize.

[SedVictaCatoni]

Right, but it doesn't stop there. In the 2nd chapter there is a different version of the story. And then later there is John, and that is a whole different tradition. It gets very deep, or we can compartmentalize.

Er... then doesn't that mean that it's incoherent and rather unuseful as a practical attempt to explain the origin of the various creatures?