The question is sometimes asked, why aren’t the 4 creation accounts identical in every respect?

• Keith Meservy briefly addresses this question in “Four Accounts of the Creation.” Ensign, January 1986.
• The EM article on Creation discusses it very briefly.
• A harmony of the three scriptural accounts of creation. (Harmonies are sometimes useful, but some things aren’t meant to be harmonized.
• My commentary.