For anyone who might like an excellent resource. There is a group called 'Answers in Genesis' pioneered my Ken Ham of Australia. AiG provides and incredibly solid 'creationist' perspective which upholds the Bible's account from the first verse. They are currently building a Creation Museum in the US.

I believe some of Ken Ham's audio is on this site and the AiG ministry has an excellent website (which I won't link to for fear of breaking rules), but you can google it. The site is packed with free, searchable audio and print media about subjects such as this one.

AiG was instrumentally used of God to strengthen my faith in college when everything I believed was under attack. They have insightful teaching on the meaning of the literal hebrew word 'day' used in Genesis versus the figurative greek word 'day' used in 2nd Peter.

Blessings.

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Brian Erickson

Time started at Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning..." Time started passing immediately because there was day one, two, etc.

I like Kent Hovind's take on the naming of the animals. He states there are only about 8000 different kinds of animals, ie: dog, cat, cow, etc. Adam came pre-programmed from the hand of God, and could walk, talk, and get married on day one. He also was not cursed yet. If his brain was more advanced than ours, this might take out the need for deep contemplation of naming the animals. But he still could have named 8000 easily in a few of hours.

I can't prove it dogmatically, but I don't believe there were any pre-fall kids as the Scripture seems to focus on Adam knowing his wife, then Cain's birth: "I have gotten a man," Abel's birth: "she again bare his brother Abel."

Cain married his sister. There were no laws against it at that time. Who were they going to get in trouble with? The gene pool was as pure as it was going to be. To put it in perspective, though, Adam married his rib. So it was pure at that time. Later laws were given against marrying siblings. Christ is also to marry his sister. The church is his bride, but Jesus is also our brother. Songs 4:9 "Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes..." This could also be reflected in Genesis by Abram being married to his sister: 'my sister, my spouse' etc.

I agree that Lucifer had not yet fallen while everything was "very good."

I also agree that there was much more going on than we have and probably are able to ponder.

Though I wouldn't dwell on these subjects day after day after day, I think they are reasonable. Everything in the Scriptures is worthy of study.

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Hal Bachman