Not reading God's Word right is just wrong. No talking snakes!

If the drought reducing the productivity of the wild stands, then the scripture should have read that there were no plants of the field because God didn't send pain. period. Yes the drought reduced the productivity, for scientists discuss the rapid disappearance of almost all the villages during the Younger Dryas. There were still some wild plants. The verse adds that there were no men to work the ground. Before the younger Dryas, we have evidence of harvesting and processing tools like sickles and grinders, but no evidence of tools to work the ground. After the younger Dryas, we have evidence that there were tools to work the ground. The point is that at the start of Gen 2 there was no tilling and cultivating and by the time of the curse, and later, Cain and Abel, there was tilling and cultivating.

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Which fits perfectly well with the idea that the story is a mythologised account of the beginnings of agriculture.Which fits perfectly well with the idea that the story is an account of the beginnings of agriculture. It doesn't have to be mythologized.
I'll be gone a couple of days but look up the references after.