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only if there were 20,000 "kinds" in that one garden space/location. Did he name {"bird") or did he name every species of bird. The text is not that specific.
But it is where the text of Genesis 1 and Ex 20:11 (which is legal code ... not symbolism) agree.
Your talking nonsense now. Adam could not have done everything described in 24 hours in day 6 as a mere mortal human like you and I. Lets not forget he had a good long sleep why God made Eve and the Garden managed to grow and Adam cultivated it.
We also know that every species that we have now did not always exist. We have way more species now because animals crossbred creating new species.
No really it dose not. The 24 hour thing is just made up nonsense mainly down to a dodgy translation of the hebrew word for day.
As has already been said on this thread, the Hebrew word "yom" could mean "day", "epoch", "stage" or "phase" according to the context in which it is used, so Moses could well have said that creation was done in six phases and still be quite correct. The problem is with the English translation that can only translate "yom" as day so someone who has no knowledge of Biblical Hebrew would assert that Moses meant a 24 day when he used the word "yom" to describe the six stages of creation.
We don’t know how long Adam slept, since God was the “surgeon” it could’ve easily been a few minutes. The scriptures also don’t actually say that Adam even started cultivating anything on the 6th day.
Then why add the term “there was evening and there was morning”? What purpose does that phrase serve if it is not indicating an actual 24 hour day. And people who say the word Yom can mean an age or time in this case don’t understand why they included age or time in the definition. We use the word day today exactly the same way the Hebrews used it 3500 years ago. You can’t just look at a lexicon or concordance and pick whatever definition suits your theology you have to understand the usage of the different definitions. Here’s an example.
It did for Dinosaurs and science proves it. Again probaly more dodgy theology from poor translation. Most likely the scriptures meant spiritual death rather than physical death. Nowhere does it imply that God intended Humans to be immortal before the fall, otherwise pro creation becomes pointless. I think you will find it was always gods plan for physical death and then an eternal spirital existence with him in heaven. The fall pretty much screwed up the plan.
What makes it obvious that creation couldn’t have possibly taken place in 6 days?
You seem to be contradicting yourself here. If it was always God’s plan for man to experience physical death, which I completely agree with you, then the fall didn’t screw up His plan, it was always part of His plan. Not that He actually set it up to unfold that way, because if that was His intention He didn’t have to start Adam & Eve in the garden with the Tree of Life to begin with. He could’ve just created them and stuck them into the world, but I believe His intention was to allow man to go ahead and be the cause of his own destruction so that He could step in and show mercy and save man.
The evening and morning obviously refer to days in heaven. Explain how there can be an evening and morning if the Sun is not created until the 4th Day.
Yes I expected that this was the problem. So you don’t believe in miracles. Science also says that a man can’t come back to life after being dead for three days, and that a man can’t walk on water, and that a virgin can’t give birth, and that a donkey can’t talk, and that a person cannot be turned into a pillar of salt.
