re: #140 Dr Lizardo
Probably because we’re looking at multiple creation myths that were floating around that part of the world at that point in time - and while they were ultimately blended into one, it’s somewhat inevitable that not everything could be retconned.
And the scriptures are not a unitary whole. They’re a collection that has been modified and edited multiple times with new things brought in and other things left out. And that’s not getting into the translation and copying errors that creep in.