Had God Forgotten to Create a Mate for Adam?

 

By the end of the nineteenth century, as Charles Darwin's theory became more broadly accepted by scientists, many theologians accepted evolution except for the human species, which they argued possessed properties, like morality, that evolution could not explain.  Some of their hesitancy derived from concerns that evolution could undermine morality and even the larger social order, or that evolution could conflict with Christian claims that human beings were created in the image of God.

 

B. B. Warfield because he had strong views on the complete inerrancy of Scripture is often cited by today's most conservative young earth creationists and other fundamentalists. And yet he wrote:

 

The upshot of the whole matter is that there is no necessary antagonism of Christianity to evolution, provided that we do not hold to too extreme a form of evolution. To adopt any form that does not permit God freely to work apart from law and which does not allow miraculous intervention (in the giving of the soul, in creating Eve, etc.) will entail a great reconstruction of Christian doctrine, and a very great reconstruction of Christian doctrine, and a very great lowering of the detailed authority of the bible.

 

Despite his acknowledgement of difficult issues with evolution---including the creation of Eve---his stance on the interpretation of Scripture was clear. Although committed to the plenary verbal inspiration of the bible, he did not see any need for a wholesale rejection of Darwin's theory of evolution.

 

The Language of Science and Faith

---Karl W. Giberson & Francis S. Collins

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat^] of it you shall surely die." Does the Bible tell us Adam passed this tidbit of information along to Eve who did not exist at this time?

Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him." Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. 

Does anyone believe God had not considered Eve until this point in time?