A Modern Commentary pp. There are no emotions in this version of the story, nor is there any conflict.
Human beings take their place in the natural order of things in the same way that cows and fish do.
We have an opposing witness with a much more exciting tale of how things came to be. In this version, human beings are created before plant life and are put in the Garden of Eden, a place whose location on the world map is carefully described. These verses tell a dramatic story about a tree of knowledge of good and bad, a woman created from Adam's rib, and a serpent who leads to their eating the forbidden fruit and, ultimately, to their banishment from this wondrous garden. Describe how the universe came to be and how we came to be in it, using your own ideas as well as those from the Torah text. Indeed, we could say that today's physicists are our mystics-ever pursuing their quest for God, even though their work might look like a mathematical equation to most of us.