Hawk, You must be reading a different Bible. The motivation and time sequence are quite clear in my version. If my brother's Old Testament Professor at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond reads it the same way I do, I feel I am in fairly good company in thinking it contradicts. But, to each his own interpretation of the scriptures. That in itself points out the futility of trying to use scriptures in a discussion of science.
Thunder, What in the world is a family of species? That makes no sense at all in scientific terms.
When all the clues are considered together, it is very difficult to come to any meaning other than the one I explained. You must want to read it in such as way as to make it seem contradictory.
