Don,

2. While the Hebrew day starts with sunset and ends with sunset, a “day” is not referred to as “evening to evening”. And since the scriptures speak about a regular day throughout the bible without ever using the term “evening to evening” we would not expect God to use this term either. If you need that term “evening to evening” to be the only way that God could prove to you that he was speaking about a normal day, then I don’t think we could ever prove a normal day at all throughout the rest of the scriptures if this was the standard.

It is time to drop this one because it is going nowhere.

1. The ESV is wrong in adding “had” to the verb formed. The grammar is verb, qal, active, prefixed (imperfect) sequential. In answering question #1 you answered both yes and no. Which is it? Were animals formed by God after Adam was created? Yes or no? What do you say?