Evolutionary Tree

[RobertE]

Speaking of evolutionary trees .. don't you bible thumpers have an even bigger problem?  I've heard that according to Genesis growing things like trees were created and installed before the sun was switched on.  I don't think there are any 'a priori' reasons to question evolution which compare to the problems which beset the biblical alternative.

Perhaps I am a bit stupid but who is the imaginary diety talking to when he says this:

28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

This was before he created Adam and Eve? Furthermore, when he had a go at Eve, surely it was actually someone in real life who warned Eve not to eat the fruit because it was simply dangerous and toxic.

From Genesis 2:

Adam and Eve

4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth

Genesis 1:

Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.”