Genesis, Chapter 1You'd think God would know exactly what He's doing, ... Blogging The Bible Reading the First Few Chapters of the Bible. By David Plotz. May 16, 2006 7:01 AM.

In Genesis, Adam and Eve are told to multiply and be fruitful. But single people fill the Bible, and so do the childless.

Clearly Genesis 1 is more sophisticated than Genesis 2 which is the stuff of Sunday school Bible stories (and what most ordinary folk think of when they think of Creation) as opposed to the first ...

But it's his 20-year-old "Genesis and the Big Bang" -- which seeks to reconcile the Bible with physics, cosmology and evolution -- that's still shaking the scientific and religious communities.

In Genesis 1, we read, “In the image of God he created them, male and female he created them” (v. 27, NRSVue throughout). The male-female image of God already contains the potential for sex.