possible interpretation, one must argue for another way of harmonizing the accounts. The point is that everyone who assumes the two accounts are not contradictory but complementary will also argue that the author intended to give a nonchronological order in chapter 2 in order to make a theological point (for example, mankind is seen as central to creation rather than as the climax). If chapter 2 is out of order for theological reasons, why must chapter 1 be in order chronologically? The only reason
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