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Why should I, as a Christian, believe either of the creation myths in Genesis when they so clearly do not correspond to the record GOD left us?
First of all, there is truth in the first opening chapters of Genesis. As Christians, we all accept God does the creating. It also sets the scene of Mans' relationship to God. Genesis 1 to 2 was never meant to be a science book, but it does say at least 4 times in the Hebrew scriptures that God encourages us to explore his creation (=science. Of course it will always come to problems when one applies a literal interpretation to the text, but biblical interpretation needs to be measured witht he style of which it is written. In Genesis 1 is a clearly strucured poem to how God set aside the Sabbath as a special place of rest and communion with God on the model of a seven day week which is still running to this day.
Genesis nor the bible was ever meant to be a science book of "how", but "why".