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In addition to your personal views you might share the information from Bible scholars, who often note the two Genesis accounts interweave and inform each other in a "dialogic" relationship.

See especially several papers on the theme by Hulisani Ramantswana.

https://www.academia.edu/9859629/Humanity_Not_Pronounced_Good_A_Re_reading_of_Genesis_1_26_31_in_Dialogue_with_Genesis_2_3

The same technique of two narratives of the same event is used in Gen 1 and 11, and also in Judges 1. As Philip R. Davies observes: “With the benefit of a second look, ideally from a different angle and slowed down, one sees what has just happened, and sees differently.” ("Making it: Creation and Contradiction in Genesis" pg. 250)

My personal view is the two narratives are meant to be viewed as 'male' and 'female' to each other, and are to be combined by the subtle reader into a new narrative not told by either 'parent'.

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