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I don't think forcing the two different stories of creation is a good idea. Doing that is reading into the Bible what they want to see, rather than reading out of the text what God wants us to learn.

Genesis 1 is much closer to what we actually see than the pagan story adapted to the Bible in Genesis 2. Genesis 2 is much more "antropomorphed" than 1. "And, as Leupold acknowledged, those who deny this possibility do so (at least partly) because of their insistence on making the two chapters disagree. " Those who insist on making the chapters agree are distorting the passage more than those that just translate the Hebrew with its best translation. Creationists love the KJV until it forces them to realize their interpretation of the Bible is wrong.

"Creationists love the KJV until it forces them to realize their interpretation of the Bible is wrong."

Im personally a fan of the NAS. I rarely use the KJV. However, any Christian who does not realize that these are TRANSLATIONS of Hebrew and Greek text will get themselves in trouble. There are things that get lost in translation or that get obscured or paraphrased. To say that one translation is the definitive one will get you in trouble. When there is an issue of translation it is best to go the original document.

JM