Commentary: Created Order Does Not Establish Hierarchy

Ardavanis says:

"First is not always best, or else beavers would be better than humans." Then immediately: "God had positioned Adam in the garden to be the priest and protector of Eden."

He undercuts his own argument. If first doesn't mean best, why does first mean authority? The acknowledgment that creation order doesn't establish superiority should logically extend to authority as well. He cannot have it both ways — either firstness establishes precedence or it doesn't.