Don,
I am trying to get answers so that I can figure out if the problem is me (that I am such a dimwit that I cannot even figure out a simple straight answer) or if the answer is that you are not actually answering my questions.

1 I asked for a yes or no answer because I want to know what you believe. Were animals formed by God after Adam was created? I don’t want to hear what both sides say. I want to know what you believe from the text.

2 I do not understand why you do not see creation days as 24 hours. When I read your answers it makes me feel akin to watching someone say to God that they will not believe in Him unless He does some miracle in the sky. In other words what He has already said is not good enough. It has to be exactly the way that only they would believe. So if I take your “evening to evening” I can see that if God had said that you would say that it is a unique saying and nowhere else in the bible does it say “evening to evening” so this is a sign that we are to take it as poetry, a parable, a metaphor, etc, etc. Secondly it appears that it isn’t just the days that turn you away from the literal. You appear to me to want to cut up the creation account into different stories that have different creation accounts that are allowed to contradict one another. Perhaps a different Adam in each account? I really don’t know, but I am starting to doubt that I will ever get a straight answer so that I can even acknowledge your view. Perhaps this is a self-defense mechanism. Perhaps it is still me as a dim wit. But honestly it feels like trying to nail jello to the wall. So unless I can even identify the jello (and attach it gently to the wall so it stays), I cannot agree that your view is faithful to the text because I do not understand your view at all.

Does this make any sense?