I make that I'm wrong. Gen 2:19 in King James makes it sound like God made the animals as he was bringing them before Adam. But the Revised Standard Version is clearer on tense and God was bringing the animals before Adam that God had already made.
The animals were made before Adam. However, you still have the problem of Eve. If God put Adam to sleep and removed a rib and then closed his flesh to create Eve. Then clearly Eve did not evolve.
Genesis 2 seems to say otherwise, but whatever.
However, you still have the problem of Eve. If God put Adam to sleep and removed a rib and then closed his flesh to create Eve. Then clearly Eve did not evolve.
Following St. Augustine, I don't take that passage literally. But even if you do take that literally, there's no conflict with evolution. If Adam evolved, and Eve was supernatuarally made from Adam, then ultimately evolution was part of the process by which Eve was formed. And there's no way a scientist could falsify the proposition that Eve was made from Adam's rib.