[dangus]

>> No it doesn't. Verse 3 of chapter two clearly says that it was the 7th day, and God was resting. Then the rest of the events in Genesis two occur after that (presumably day 8+, since God rested on the 7th).

If Adam and Eve's creation, as described in 2:4-25, was on the 7th day or later, who was created on the 6th day in 1:26-31?

[Technogeeb]

If Adam and Eve's creation, as described in 2:4-25, was on the 7th day or later, who was created on the 6th day in 1:26-31?

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."

But it doesn't say Adam and Eve. There are any number of opinions and theories on this subject (for example, that "day" here is the epoch of man, which we are still in, or that this was a "generic" creation of man in contract with the special creation of Adam, etc. The more secular, of course, suggest that it is merely the incorporation of two different creation myths, an idea that I find irrational).

I don't have any strong opinion on any of them (other than the theories that discount the text altogether), other than the basic principle that I think the text itself is accurate and not a "metaphor", and that if it seems to contradict what is known from the physical sciences, or seems to contradict itself, then it is merely our understanding of the scripture that is inaccurate.