Creation/evolution3

[watchamadoodle]

O.k. so you're saying that many years after Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden, it became a desert, and the spiritual beings were no longer needed to keep humans from returning?

im saying the desert is that flaming sword, and the Angels keep that place a desert so it doesn't become a garden again.

O.k, so what do you imagine happened to the tree of life, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the animals, etc.?

Also I'm curious about the 7 days of creation described in Genesis 1. I suppose the man described in Genesis 1 is just the soulless homo-monkeyus?

we know that is not true because in Genesis 2 where We have been given greater detail we are told God breathed a living soul into Adam.

I don't see how you can read this literally, because paleontology says it took billions of years. Maybe if you imagine God moving at relativistic speeds, but why would he dictate a story for humans using times measured in a different reference frame from Earth?

i state in the OP that as per the creation account God created the garden and everything in it apart from the rest of the planet. He created the garden to reflect what earth looked like at the time of the fall so A&E would be acclimated to life outside the garden.
So to recap, God made the garden and man modern, and let the rest of the world evolve, because that's how long it would take for A&E to fall from grace.

I'm not sure I understand how you feel about the 7 days in Genesis 1. Even if you read the 7 days to be 7 long phases, the sequence is wrong. For example, vegetation appears on day 3 and the sun, moon, and stars appear on day 4.

Also, when do you imagine God created the Garden of Eden within the geological history of the Earth? Depending on how far back you go in history, the Garden of Eden might need to be a space station orbiting Earth. The Earth has been through a lot in 4 billion years.

Earth was initially molten due to extreme volcanism and frequent collisions with other bodies. Eventually, the outer layer of the planet cooled to form a solid crust when water began accumulating in the atmosphere. The Moon formed soon afterwards, possibly as the result of a Mars-sized object with about 10% of the Earth's mass impacting the planet in a glancing blow. Some of this object's mass merged with the Earth, significantly altering its internal composition, and a portion was ejected into space. Some of the material survived to form an orbiting moon. Outgassing and volcanic activity produced the primordial atmosphere. Condensing water vapor, augmented by ice delivered from comets, produced the oceans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_...y_of_Earth