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As we saw in Genesis 6 - God’s Decision, the evil heart of man was causing God great pain and grief.  He regretted making them.  However, before we go on, it bears our attention to contemplate exactly who it was that God regretted making.

As we discussed in Genesis 6 - Causing God Strife, Genesis 6 appears to discuss spiritual man as if he is all there is of mankind.  But, as we also discussed in Genesis 5 - Proof that Adam was born, spiritual man is not all …

Genesis 6 begins setting the stage for the flood.  As we saw in Genesis 6 - Causing God Strife, Adam’s descendants had been causing God strife ever since The Fall.  I mean, after The Fall, it wouldn’t be until Adam was 235 years old before anyone started calling on God’s name.  Instead, people had to live off the cursed ground, and many likely under the thumb of Cain.  Why under Cain?  Well, Cain had the acid touch when it came to farming (Genesis 4:12), had no desire to be a shepherd (Genesis 4:5), and was afraid that everyone would want to kill him (Genesis 4:14).  Add to his fear and …

I believe I have made a convincing case that mankind was created before Adam, around 200,000 years ago.  Then, Adam lived around 6,000-10,000 years ago.  The main proof is scripture.

Genesis 1:26-31

God made both genders on Day 6, and blessed them together, as one group. But in Genesis 2, Eve was only created because God saw Adam was lonely and needed help.
In Genesis 1, Day 6 refers to all of mankind by the word Adam; Genesis 2 refers to a specific person the name Adam.
In Genesis 1, God gives mankind the entire world to subdue, but…

In Genesis 2, God only gives Adam the Garden of Eden to tend
Adam only goes into the world after he sins
Any subduing Adam and his descendants did …

 1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
When did men begin to increase in number?  In …

 1 This is the written account of Adam’s line.
      When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them “man. ”
Verses 1 and 2 appear to mirror both Day 6 and the creation of Adam.  I say this because because the word used for “man” is the same as the name for Adam.  The King James Version says this even clearer:
 1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;  2Male and female created he them; …

As I re-reread my post How Long were Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden? (Part 3) - When Men Began to Call on the Name of the Lord, I remembered the verse Genesis 4:13…
 13 Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
This contains some more …

As I posted in How Long were Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden?, I put forth the following theory of Adam’s life:

Mankind was created 200,000 years ago, and blessed to subdue the earth 
Adam was born 6,000 years ago
God put Adam in the Garden at 18 years of Age
Adam tended to the young garden for 7 years
He needed a helper, but none of the animals were suitable, so God made Eve
Adam and Eve sinned 7 years later
Seth was born when Adam was 130 years old, 98 years after Adam left the Garden
There were about 20,000 people descended from Adam and Eve by this time

Unlike other theories …

In How Long were Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden? I showed that it was reasonable to assume that Cain married a descendant of Adam and Eve.  Using reasonable assumptions, I showed that there could easily have been over 20,000 people descended from Adam and Eve when Cain killed Abel.  That is plenty from which to choose a wife, and then go to make a city for.  This should be an easy argument for a Young Earther to adopt (except where I suggest that Adam was 18 years old when placed in the garden), and in fact I find elements of this kind of …

       29 Truly, this only I have found:
      That God made man upright,
      But they have sought out many schemes.”

Ecclesiastes 7:29

As I wrote in Cain and Abel Consistent with Old or Young Earth Scenario, there was sufficient time in Adam’s life for their to have been a woman for Cain to marry, and people for whom to build a city.  I say this, not only because I believe there were already people alive, but because Adam was 130 years old when Seth was born, and Seth replaced Abel for Eve.  This implies that there may have been as much as 130 years of pro-creation happening before Cain got married.  If half of all people born were women, each woman could start giving birth around 15 years …