The NIV translation uses "God" in the first creation account, and "the LORD God" in the second account and in chapter three. In chapter four, this changes to just "the LORD." Chapter five not only returns to using only "God" but also refers to the creation of "male and female" which he named "mankind." It does not mention Adam and Eve by name, which makes you think that the writer of chapter five is the same as the writer of the first creation account.
I know that there are something like four or five different sources that are identified as writers of the OT, and their works are differentiated by such things as writing style. It's really not that hard to notice some of the differences when reading the first few chapters of Genesis, they're that pronounced.
I know that there are something like four or five different sources that are identified as writers of the OT, and their works are differentiated by such things as writing style. It's really not that hard to notice some of the differences when reading the first few chapters of Genesis, they're that pronounced.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
