The two accounts aren't necessarily incompatible, and they can be interpreted as offering two parallel perspectives of Creation: the first with a cosmological f

The two accounts aren't necessarily incompatible, and they can be interpreted as offering two parallel perspectives of Creation: the first with a cosmological focus, and the second with a sociological one. A synthesis of the two accounts would give an order something like this: Fluid (the proto-Earth which didn't have a distinct atmosphere), solid Earth (with liquid water forming oceans, and a gaseous atmosphere), plants, animals, humans, Adam, the garden of Eden (in an area that had been barren), (animals brought to Adam for naming), Eve.