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by Someone 2082 days ago
I don’t see it that way. Genesis doesn’t mention the creation of earth, stars get created after there’s land and water on earth, there’s light with days and nights before stars, the sun and moon are equally old, fruit-bearing plants are created before sea life, and water plants aren’t mentioned at all.

I think it’s about you can expect from randomly picking fragments, and throwing away variants that do not hold up to simple scrutiny such as “but what do these animals eat?” or “if there’s no water yet, where do these fish live?”.

About the only thing it gets truly right is the creation of water life before land life.

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> About the only thing it gets truly right is the creation of water life before land life.

Sea animals and birds are created at the same time, after land plants, so it has land life first, and sea and land animals together.

>the only thing it gets truly right is the creation of water life before land life

50% of probability of having it right just by chance

Planaria live right there in the middle - the muck, as it were. You're still probably correct for the most part, but it's not a binary. It had to have been quite a blend to kick things off in the evolving life direction.