for the reasons posted- it was supernatural- I’m not goign to get into a long discussion about htis issue- if you beleive otherwise, fine- I believe that life could not be sustained naturally had ‘nature’ taken it’s course naturally- ie no grass for long periods- animals starve to death, man starves to death because no food available until trees matured enough to bear fruit-
Again, if you believe otherwise, then fine=- and just state one last thing- if everything evolved, then there woudl be massive generations of loss of Nephesh life- but bible states Nephesh life didn’t die until after the fall when all life became subject to the curse of death-
Augustine addresses those matters in his “On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis”—I wish I could provide references but my copy got ruined. I believe he discussed how the sharp teeth of a lion were clearly built for eating flesh, and used that as an argument for animal death before the fall. That’s what I remember, anyway.
To my thinking, God had the Garden prepared before He placed Adam into it. So everything was perfect there—but not necessarily in the rest of the earth...hence the command to humanity to “subdue” it.