rib bones: who has more? adam or eve?

[lucaspa]

Lucaspa, I just checked that, and the birds were already there and waiting to be named by Adam in chapter 2.['quote]
Genesis 2:18 "Then Yahweh said, "It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion for him. So he took some soil from the ground and formed all the animals and birds. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would name them."

A literal reading clearly has birds being made after Adam. And the same way Adam was formed -- from the dust of the ground.

Chapter 1 is the general overview of creation, and in a general sense God has created every one of us, so plural men and women is fine - just that they weren't all immediate.

A literal reading of Genesis 1 is immediate.
1:26 Then Elohim said, "And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. ... So Elohim created human beings, making them like himself. He created them male and female (plural in Hebrew). ... 2:1 "And so the whole universe was completed. By the seventh day Elohim finished what he had been doing and stopped working."

Now, taking 2:1-2 into account means that your idea doesn't match with the text. The text doesn't talk about a continuing creation, but rather that the creation was immediate and then God stopped.

Chapter 2 homes in on details more specific to mankind and our relationship with God, each other,the earth and creatures, focusing particularly on the first human pair. All seems simple and literal to me. Perhaps I am simple!

It just doesn't match the literal text, is all. You have twisted it so that you can make two acounts be one, even when you contradict the text. But when you contradict the text, you aren't doing it literally anymore, are you?