Is There a Contradiction Between the First and Second Chapters of Genesis? Another favorite argument against the infallible record of Creation is that the first and second chapters are contradictory. A certain N. Y. preacher stated some years ago in Appleton’s Magazine this supposed difficulty. He said, “How can we trouble about reconciling Genesis and Science” while the two accounts of the first two chapters “are so hopelessly at variance?” Criticism has used this alleged discrepancy as an argument