Genesis 2 is a continuation of Genesis 1 and doesn't contradict it.

Objective 1 - Showing that within Genesis 2, an all new account of creation is written Pro appeals to Genesis 2:1-2 to try and prove his point. Conveniently, he doesn't take any note of Genesis 2:4. Why don't we look at what that, and indeed Genesis 2:5-7, have to say? 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. It is quite clear here that while an argument could be made that Genesis 2:1-3 forms a continuation of Genesis 1, it's quite clear from this very small segment I have quoted from Genesis 2, that from Genesis 2:4 onwards to Genesis 2:25 a new creation story is established in which the order of events depicted are completely different to the events of Genesis 1, as I will demonstrate in the next section. Thus, Genesis 2:4 onwards cannot be considered a continuation of Genesis 1. Objective 2 - Establish that contradictions do in fact exist within the two Genesis accounts of creation Now I will clarify here that while I will focus on mainly on how Genesis 1 and 2 contradict each other, I will also point out that there are numerous other contradictions within the first two chapters that go on to contradict OTHER passages in the Bible, case in point the fact that while Genesis 2:2-3 as highlighted above in Pro's intro claims that God rests on the Sabbath, John 5:16-17 claims that God and Jesus always work on the Sabbath: "5:16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. " But I digress. My main job in this section is to show the contradictions between Genesis 1 and 2, so let's begin: Humans And Other Animals - In Genesis 1:25-27, God creates humans after the other animals, as well as notably creating man and woman at the same time in Genesis 1:27: "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. .. . So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. " Yet in Genesis 2:18-22, we find the opposite: man has been created before any other animal, at which point they then get created after him, and then out of Adam's rib Eve the first woman gets created: "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. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. " Time It Took To Create Heavens And Earth - Genesis 1:3 - 1:31 claim that it took 6 days, with God resting on the seventh day in Genesis 2:1-3. However, Genesis 2:4 says quite the opposite: "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens. " As you can see, it's yet another contradiction, for while Genesis 1 claims it took six days, Genesis 2:4 says it took one day. Plants - In the quote from Genesis 2:4-9 I highlighted in my Objective 1 section, plants are clearly created AFTER humans, but according to Genesis 1:11-13, the plants came first: "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so . .. . And the evening and the morning were the third day. " And they were followed by humans in Genesis 1:27-31: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them . .. . And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. " Therefore, this forms yet another contradiction. Fowls, and other animals - This relates to from what they were created from. Genesis 1:20-21 says that they were created from the water: "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. " Genesis 2:19, however, says the following: "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. " Yeah, the ground. Clock up yet another contradiction between the two Genesis chapters. Adam and trees - In Genesis 1:29, no tree appears to be off-limits to mankind: "Behold, I have given your every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree . .. to you it shall be for meat. " However, in Genesis 2:17, suddenly Adam isn't allowed to eat from every tree: "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. " So now there's a restriction where there wasn't before. Yet again, a contradiction. Water - Genesis 1:6-8 has the earth completely covered in water, leading to God commanding the waters to separate so that lands and sea are established. Pro claims that the contradiction with Genesis 2:5-6, where the earth is completely dry, is purely just some sort of weird water connection between heaven and earth first, and then trying to claim that plants actually didn't get created until Genesis 2, even though we have quite clearly established they were apparently created in Genesis 1, and nothing in Genesis 1 supports Pro's assertion that it was just seeds that were created. Eden - Pro's argument is fundamentally silly. Firstly, man is quite clearly established to have been created and put on Earth, and there is no logical reason why God, after spending that time creating Earth, wouldn't then put Eden in it. Furthermore, there's the fact that at the end of Adam and Eve's stay in Eden during Genesis 3, God goes on to curse the ground they stand on as well as causing thorns and thistles to grow, and, critically, there is this line from Genesis 3:24: "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. " In other words, God created armed guards at the gates to ensure that neither Adam nor Eve nor any of their descendants would be able to enter the Garden of Eden again. Since Adam and Eve were Earth-dwellers and would have no access to heaven, it's illogical then for Eden to have such security guarding it if not located on Earth. Back to you, Con.