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The Book of Genesis in The Bible describes the story of creation of Adam and Eve, the first humans. But the accounts of this making of the first man varies according to different versions, and even the first part of Genesis differs from the later parts when it comes to the story of creation – for example in Genesis 1:27, God creates man and woman at the same time:
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Norman, R.A., Paul, S.P. (2017). The New Creationists. In: The Last Natural Man. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42217-6_9
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