Localized Flood

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It would be nice to see. But don’t bother, because I know you have nothing meaningful.

Start with this: a general overview of how the solar system was formed, including how the Sun was formed before the planets:

Formation and evolution of the Solar System - Wikipedia

That is not correct. Genesis 2 doesn’t tell plants were created after people. It tells plants didn’t grow yet, because there had not rained yet.

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
Gen. 2:5

That's right: Genesis 2 speaking about sprouting or flowering plants, not just seeds... just as Genesis 1 does:

11 God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” It was so. 12 The land produced vegetation—plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good. 13 There was evening, and there was morning, a third day.

Seeds don't "bear fruit" and "yield seeds;" only mature plants do that.

It also doesn’t tell that animals were not created before man. It tells God formed animals for man, but it is possible they existed outside the garden of Eden already.

In Genesis 2, God says that he will make the animals - note the future tense - after Adam already exists. At this point in the story, God has just commanded Adam not to eat from the tree:

18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.” 19 The Lord God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air.

 

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Start with this: a general overview of how the solar system was formed, including how the Sun was formed before the planets:

Formation and evolution of the Solar System - Wikipedia

Yeah, I know well that fancy fiction that is really pseudoscientific wishful thinking. We have no way to prove how things really went.

That's right: Genesis 2 speaking about sprouting or flowering plants, not just seeds... just as Genesis 1 does:

11 God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” It was so. 12 The land produced vegetation—plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good. 13 There was evening, and there was morning, a third day.

Seeds don't "bear fruit" and "yield seeds;" only mature plants do that.

I understand that means God created seeds that would begin to grow, after the rain.

In Genesis 2, God says that he will make the animals - note the future tense - after Adam already exists. At this point in the story, God has just commanded Adam not to eat from the tree:

18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.” 19 The Lord God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air.

Important thing to notice is also that Genesis 2 speaks how God forms and makes, while Genesis 1 is about ho God creates. It is not the same thing necessary. Also, Genesis 2 speaks how God planted the garden of Eden. Not same as creating it Genesis 1. And also, the animals were formed from the ground, not created. So, it is possible that they all existed outside the garden, but in the garden, God specifically made all those things, all though they may have existed already outside the garden also.

There really is no contradiction in the Bible, only in the interpretations God’s enemies make.