[js1138]

What evidence do you have for this assertion?

[Rhadaghast]

It is simply logical deductive reasoning from the words of scripture. Either Adam was the first man and scripture attests to this or he was not.

Then you need to take it to the next step.

If he was the first man, was he placed in the garden as an infant? or a functional human being?

Then the next step, how old was he when he was formed? He would appear as a fully functional human most likely of complete growth, i.e. 20-25 years old. Did he have calluses or bacteria? and so on.

Once you get to the passage of scripture latter on in the Pentateuch that describe the curse, and the results of the curse, then you get the full picture of the decay that was not part of God being present in the earth, after Genesis Chapter 3.

Faith is not compromised by these observations, and neither is science.