Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
Note: The same Hebrew word is used for Adam and man in this verse.
This verse declares the generations of the man created in the image/likeness of God. Body, mind, and spirit.
This man's firstborn son's name was Seth.
Seth was born when this man was 130 years old.
This man had no son named Cain nor did he have a son named Abel.
Yet in Chapter 4, at the end, it says:
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25And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
26And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
So it solves a lot of problems for me and I can not think of one it creates.
It creates the problem of two consecutive chaters that both involve a man named Adam, who had a son named Seth, who had a son named Enos having to be two completely different people with no explicit mention of it whatsoever.
I have an old eternal universe and earth that will never go out of existence.
and another problem you have is that we know that the earth has not been around since the beginning of the Universe (and we don't need to know about before T=0+ to know that).
Also, we also know that the Earth will go out of existence when our sun turns into a red giant.
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