there are perhaps only 55 different “kinds” of dinosaurs, quoted from “Were Dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark” online at www.answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/were-dinosaurs-on-noahs-ark/.
4 See “Do Leaves Die?” accessed online February 2017 at www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v1/n2/do-leaves-die.
5 Genesis 2:7–14. The Bible mentions four main regions before the Fall of mankind and the catastrophic worldwide Flood of Noah’s day; the four regions were Havilah, Cush, Asshur, and Eden. Adam was formed from the ground in the region called Eden which was in the east, and then placed in an extra-special garden God prepared — the Garden of Eden. Once in the Garden, God brought animals to Adam to name.
6 Genesis 2:8, 2:15
7 Genesis 2:17 is literally, “dying thou dost die” (YLT). The process of dying began immediately after man’s sin.
8 Genesis 2:20
9 Although millions of species of animals exist today, nearly all are the result of rapid changes within the “kinds” (roughly equivalent to the “family” category). For instance, today we have a multitude of species of dogs, but all of them came from the original canine kind. All the species and breeds of dogs — including all the domesticated dogs, and wild dogs like coyotes, wolves and dingoes — have come about by the tremendous amount of information and adaptability that God designed into the DNA of the original pair. Dogs do not evolve into other kinds of animals, they adapt (speciate) within the dog kind. God designed DNA to allow for tremendous and rapid adaptation and speciation through the generations of each kind.
10 For example, if Adam had to name 1,000 top-level kinds, and he named one kind every 15 seconds, he could have been done in less than five hours, even allowing 45 minutes for breaks. In research by Dr. Jean Lightner and others, scientists’ project that there were around 1,000 different top-level kinds of animals [proto-species (genera)] to name. Even so, Adam did not name all the beasts of the earth, but merely a subset of that (the beasts of the field), so he named far less than this number. See Dr. Jean Lightner’s Answers Research Journal article, https://answersingenesis.org/noahs-ark/determining-the-ark-kinds/.
11 The Bible says that Adam was “alone” (he had no mate). It does not say that he was “lonely” (isolated). A common misconception.
12 Genesis 2:22–23 (in Young’s Literal Translation, multiple exclamation marks more fully communicate Adam’s intense delight).
13 Adam and Eve were both created in perfection, before sin, suffering, and death entered the world. Due to the Fall (Genesis 3), no other human has ever experienced that perfection.
14 The married couple was told to have children in a way that required the act of producing them; not only “caring for” them. The created order was male and female, and Jesus defended this in Matthew 19:4–6 and Mark 10:5–9. Homosexuality and homosexual “marriage” is a form of adultery, one of several sins of sexual immorality. With regard to the biblical mandate for parenting, the question is not whether a same-sex couple can love a child, but whether God intended for same sex couples to be parents.
15 Genesis 1:27, 2:7.
16 “People and some animals are described in Genesis as having, or being, nephesh. The Hebrew word nephesh conveys the basic idea of a “breathing or living creature,” but some passages indicate that nephesh creatures may only be the ones that have blood. For example, Leviticus 17:11 states that “the life [nephesh] of all flesh is the blood of it.” There is no example in Scripture of “blood” ever being used in reference to invertebrates. In fact, in the biblical and everyday sense, invertebrates do not have blood [Hebrew, dam]” (from Answers magazine volume 9.4, October–December 2014, in Readers Respond section, https://answersingenesis.org/answers/magazine/v9-n4/readers-respond/readers-respond/ ).
17 Genesis 3:18.
18 Exodus 20:11, 31:12–18. Colossians 2:13–17 indicates that the death of Jesus on the Cross cancelled the Sabbath-keeping covenant that was previously required of the Israelites.
BONUS — Angels
A war arose in heaven soon after God pronounced all creation “very good.” However, because the account of this event is spread throughout the Bible, with only the aftermath being addressed in Genesis, it is easily overlooked. In what must have been a fierce battle, God’s army of loyal angels, led by Michael, their commander,1 struggled against Satan (the great dragon2) and the many angels that rebelled with him. Revelation — the last book of the Bible — seems to indicate that a third of all angels fought against God’s authority and were cast down to earth.3 The prophet Ezekiel also refers to Satan being cast down.4 Defeated in heaven, Satan continued his rebellion on earth, where man had been given dominion.5 In the Garden of Eden, Satan spoke through a serpent in order to entice mankind to follow him rather than God.
Many assume that the heavenly battle of the angels occurred long before mans’ creation, but it is clear that the fall of Satan and his minions had to occur after God declared that everything He had created was “very good,” at the end of day 6. Otherwise creation would not have been seen by God as being without blemish.
Likewise, the fall of Satan and the angels we now call demons took place prior to when Satan — in pursuit of God’s glory — entered the serpent and used it to beguile Eve into eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
While the Bible does not focus on the timeframe, it seems logical to assume that the period between day 6 and the Fall of Adam and Eve was very short, possibly only days or weeks, since Eve had not yet conceived the couple’s first child.6 Their bodies were operating perfectly, so it is likely that the window of time prior to sin was a few months at most.
1 Jesus is not an angel. He created the angels, and He was given authority above all angels by God (Matthew 28:18; Ephesians 1:22; Colossians 1:16; etc.). Note that Michael the archangel had to appeal to the Lord (Jesus) to oppose Satan in Jude 1:9.
2 Revelation 12:7
3 Revelation 12:4 and 12:7–10. See also Jesus’ reference to Satan falling like lightning, Luke 10:18.
4 Ezekiel 28:13–17 (see also “Lucifer and Sin” by Troy Lacey at