If Genesis is LITERAL then where do birds and animals come from?

[jabechler]

Check out the entire chapter for context. The animals were created before man. the second verse you qoute only states God brought the animals and birds to Adam to be named. The water creatures and birds were created on the same day.

 

[gluadys]

Check out the entire chapter for context. The animals were created before man. the second verse you qoute only states God brought the animals and birds to Adam to be named. The water creatures and birds were created on the same day.

The second story is an independent story that once existed separately from the first. So it should not be interpreted as sequential to the first story.

In the second story, the production of animals from the ground prior to bringing them to the man to be named is the creation of animal life. There is no prior creation of animals.