The Gap Theory Examined

Would you speculate on how long a time there might have been between Creation and Fall? Did cockroaches and flies not only not die back then, but also use some form of birth control? If not, it wouldn't have been but a few weeks before Adam and Eve would have been smothered in bugs. Heck, even mice reach reproductive age in a couple of months, and have pretty fair-sized litters. If none of them die, how many of the Mouse Kind would you have in a year or two?

Bold words. Reminiscent of some astronomer - I forget who - that lamented that science would never know anything about the chemical composition of stars.And then a few years later, along comes spectroscopy, discovering helium on the Sun before it was found on Earth.We already know the age of the Earth to a certainty of far better than 1%, jjburklo.

Hmmm. People are still about that impatient, huh?

Only, in a no-death-before-fall scenario, if bacteria, cockroaches, mice, and rabbits weren't reproducing. Otherwise all those critters would stack up to the Moon.
And that's just dandy with me if you want to add "no reproduction" to Eden. But it may be tough to find a verse to justify it.

Hi, LL. you nefarious villian, you!
May I point you to this thread, which discusses a recently found "missing link" which joins several others that were 1) predicted to exist and 2) found in a particular part of the geologic column based on the prediction?