“Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” Genesis 2:7
Over and over in Scripture we are told that God is the creator of everything. The first verse in the Bible tells us God is creator.
Because he creates every thing He owns all and has authority over all. Additionally He knows how all things work and what is good and proper for His creation as well as what will harm it. We also know that when God acted in creation all things He made were “good” in His sight yet the creation of man was described by God as “very good”.
Think of what that meant for the creation of Adam and Eve. When Adam was created God would have created him in man’s purest state. This means he would have been the most intelligent man that ever lived. He would have the perfect body. He would be most handsome man that ever lived. He would have the mental capacity to comprehend, learn and understand more than any other person who ever lived. He would commune directly with God which would give him direct exposure to truth and light. God would teach him and put him in situations where he could learn or discover for himself the truths of living in the paradise of Eden that God had prepared especially for him and all his descendants.
Now think of the way man has distorted that picture of the creation. The evolutionists discount God and substitute millions of years in place of what God did in seven days. (Evolutionists assume man can do what God can do if given enough time.) They propose a man formed with the intelligence of an ape. He struggles to learn. He lives in caves and paints childish pictures on walls. This ape-man eventually stumbles on how to make fire and to use small stone tools. Eventually his increasing awareness of his environment allows him to move from being a gatherer of fruit and berries to being a hunter. (This narrative replaces Adam enjoying the fruit provided by God in the Garden of Eden and doing the work assigned by God – naming of all the animals.) Interestingly the evolutionists claim that during the Neolithic period (roughly 8,000 B.C. to 3,000 B.C.), ancient humans switched from being hunters and gatherers to agriculture and food production. They domesticated animals (see how evolutionists have creation exactly backwards?). God says all animals were domesticated before the curse of sin caused them to become wild) and cultivated cereal grains. Evolutionists suggest man became able of creating and using polished hand axes, blades for plowing and tilling the land. Thus they started to settle in the plains. The Bible teaches that from Adam to Noah men dwelt on farms throughout the world. It is not until after the flood (1600 years after the creation of Adam) that man began to move into cities (against the directive of God).
What can we learn from Adam? God asserts his claim to be creator of all in Genesis 1. When we come to Genesis 2 we see that God alters his method of creation to make man. All other parts of His creation were spoken into existence. When God make Adam His word says He “formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life” (Genesis 2:7). The Hebrew word for dust indicates dry earth. When God dictated Genesis to Moses he pointed us to the material God formed the human body out of. Scientists tell us that the elements found in the human body are also found in the dust of the ground. We know that when we die, out bodies go
back to dust of the earth (you don’t find bodies in graves turning into some primordial pool). Man devolves back to the elements God used to create us (Genesis 3:19).
God also did something else in Adam’s creation that he did not do with the animals. Solomon tells us that God “set eternity in the human heart”. The evolutionist claims this is a superstition from our past, a thought we will outgrow as we evolve. God tells us that He put this realization in our hearts for man, made in God’s image, to remind us we will live with Him in eternity or we will live without Him for eternity. If one thinks about what will happen to him after eternity, God put that concern there to draw him to God.