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SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES.
Order of creation in the second account :
- The heavens and the earth.
- A mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
- Created a man out of dust, by the name of Adam.
- Planted a garden eastward in Eden, and put the man in it.
- Created the beasts and fowls.
- Created a woman out of one of the man's ribs.
In the second account, man was made before the beasts and fowls. If this is true, the first account is false. And if the theologians of our time are correct in their view that the Mosaic day means thousands of ages, then, according to the second account, Adam existed millions of years before Eve was formed. He must have lived one Mosaic day before there were any trees, and another Mosaic day before the beasts and fowls were created. Will some kind clergymen tell us upon what kind of food Adam subsisted during these immense periods?
In the second account a man is made, and the fact that he was without a helpmeet did not occur to
