Lets try this again. Please, no page long answers or riddles my brain can't handle them.
Was there anything prior to Genesis?
Were there Dinosaurs and where do they fit in?
Were there Neanderthals and where do they fit in?
No more polls, I just mess them up.
Thanks for giving your opinion.
An unknown amount of time passed while Adam and Eve were in the Garden, where we can guess they had Life (not yet entering the mortal life we know) -- there with the Tree of Life in the Garden, where the eternal One walked there with them.
While they were there in a place that may not have had time even, Earth outside the Garden continued we can guess according to the natural order, with normal time, of an unknown duration.
Sometimes you hear the number calculated by genealogy of years from
after Adam and Eve left the Garden and entered the ordinary world, and of course, that time duration doesn't include the unknown time while they were in the Garden (additionally that calculation won't include the unknown time during Gen 1:1, when God created the heavens -- the Universe -- and the nascent (beginning) Earth) -- all
before the moment of Gen 1:2).
There are a lot of mere details about creation scripture doesn't address because we are to have
faith, not mere proof.
If scripture gave definite time duration answers, and then we eventually found evidence to confirm the time duration, like the age of Earth,
then faith would be preempted, precluded, prevented -- because faith is to believe
without seeing, without proof.
Scripture isn't about trivial things like geology and such....