101 Myths of the Bible: how ancient scribes - Conscious Evolution TV

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yth #12:
God created Adam and Eve on the sixth day.
The Myth: 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. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.…And God saw every thing that he had made, and,
behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. (Gen.
1:26–27, 31)
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
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. (Gen. 2:6–7)
The Reality: The male and female created on the sixth day of Creation were not
Adam and Eve. The story of Adam and Eve belongs to a separate mythological tradition
than that of the seven days of Creation.
When did God create Adam and Eve? Ask almost anyone familiar with the Book
of Genesis and they will tell you that they appeared on the sixth day of Creation.
When the biblical redactors edited the Bible into its present form, they wanted the
reader to believe this to be true. Yet, examination of the relevant biblical verses shows
that the male and female created on the sixth day were not Adam and Eve.
In the first Creation story, God proceeded in an orderly fashion to organize the
universe and create all the things within it. On each of six consecutive days he performed
various tasks.
On the third day he created plant life, on the fourth, heavenly bodies. And on days
five and six:
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