Twelve Questions in Genesis

Some Questions about the Creation Story as told in Genesis:

1. How could there be days before the Sun was made?  (Gen 1:3 vs. Gen 1:14-18)
2. How could there be plants before there were night and day?  (Gen. 1:11-16)
3. God made the Sun, the Moon and the Stars but not planets?  Where are the planets?  (Gen 1:14-19)
4. If God is all-powerful why did he need a day of rest?  (Gen 2:2)
5. Why aren't microscopic plants and animals mentioned?
6. Why did God make livestock and then tell Adam & Eve to eat only plants?  (Gen 1:24; Gen 1:29)
7. Why does Chapter 2 have a different version from Chapter 1?  Were there plants before Man was made or not?  And why was it a problem that there were no crops yet when they already had all they could eat in the Garden?  (Gen 2:5)
8. If Adam was not alive until God breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, does that mean that a fetus is not alive until it takes its first breath? (Gen 2:7)
   
9. If Eve didn't know about good & evil before eating from the tree of good & evil, then how could she be punished for committing evil?  (Gen 3:4)
10. If God is a spirit, how did Adam & Eve hear him clomping around the Garden of Eden?  (Gen 3:8)
11. If the serpent was already a serpent, then why did God curse it to crawl on its belly?  Didn't it already do that?  (Gen: 3:14)
12. If there is only one god, then why did he say, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." (Gen 3:22)

Eugenie Scott profiled in the New York Times

She's a true hero in the battle for science education.  Kudos to the New York Times for calling attention to her life and work:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/science/eugenie-c-scott-fights-the-teaching-of-creationism-in-schools.html?pagewanted=1&tntemail0=y&_r=2&emc=edit_tnt_20130902&

And they also profiled high school students who defended science education.