Let The Creatard Shitting of Bricks Begineth

[Tonus]

Gen 1 is a chronological summary account of the major creation events spanning some 13 billion years.
Gen 2 starts with a ref. to when God shaped the earth and the heavens but from that point forward, it begins to elaborate on the ‘why’ or ‘purpose’ of creation.

This is the apologist's attempt to square the two accounts, but it doesn't work. The two creation accounts are not complementary explanations of the same events. They differ on some fundamental points. In the first account, the humans are created together; in the second account, they are separate creations. In the first account, the human pair get their directions straight from god; in the second account only the man gets instructions direct from god. In the first account they are given the fruit of all of the plants and trees on Earth as food; in the second account they are only given the trees of the garden with an additional exception. In the first account they are given all of the animals to rule over, yet the story following the first account is how an animal deceived the woman into breaking god's single commandment to them.

It is more realistic to think that the person who wrote the second account had either never read the first account or had possibly only heard some details of it. He makes no attempt to make the two accounts similar; he is writing his own story and he is writing it about a very different god.