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Your fist cite speaks about light and sun. It is not interchangeable, and when God speaks about the light it does not necessary means he speaks about the sun.

Your second cite is simply incorrect:
GE 1:11-12, 26-27 
11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

27 So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

GE 2:4-9
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams[b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed a man[c] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

If you read carefully, you will see that there are no contradiction: in the GE 1:11, God made the land to produce vegetation. It does not necessary means that the seeds already sprouted. He created the soil that is capable to produce vegetation. In GE 2:4, he says that there were no shrub or plant on the earth, but the earth already was able to produce them. Once the soil was watered with rain, then the seeds sprouted. 
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If you are going to parse words like that, and assign your own meaning to them, then the book simply cannot be taken literally, and is open to anyone's interpretations.  You take obvious contradictions which can be spotted with grammar-school level textual criticism and try to make them fit your purposes.  You wouldn't accept that type of analysis of law from your local sheriff, from a manual from your mechanic or of a medical book from your physician.  Think about that, it may tell you something.

Why wasn't god just crystal clear about these things?  Would have saved a heck of a lot of holy-war-in'.

And god created man in hos own image?  Does god have a belly-button?

And tell me now how all those animals fit on the ark.[/quote]

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