Because Satan does not belong or fit in Eden.
Why?
They knew it mentally when they sinned, but biblical knowledge means to experience and live it.
But that's not why God kicked them out of the garden.
There was a river they could have fallen into and drowned.
Again, God created Adam and Eve "very good." They wouldn't have been clumsy enough to fall into the river and drown.
Remember the 4 rivers that surrounded Eden.
No.
I know of a single river that flows out of the garden, and then splits into four rivers that water the earth, but I don't know of any rivers that surrounded Eden.
Such would be physically impossible, since Eden was on a mountain.
There is always a way to die.
True.
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was one such way.
It was a way out of God's presense, death.
Someone could have got angry and hit the other with a rock,
For what reason would Adam and Eve have gotten angry?
They were in God's perfectly created garden, sinless, and in perfect harmony with their Creator and all the other animals He had created.
Stolen concept fallacy.
You can't use a concept while ignoring, contradicting or denying the validity of the concepts on which it logically and genetically depends, in this case, that being that Cain and Abel were conceived in and lived in a post-sin world, meaning they, as descendants of Adam, had a sin-ful nature.
It has always been like earth is today,
No, it hasn't, and I have already presented evidence that shows that the earth has experienced a literally earth shattering catastrophe. You, so far, have ignored it.
except for the damage done by human encroachment.
Humans haven't damaged the earth in the slightest compared to the Flood.
The geologic column tells us what earth has always been like.
Begging the question.
I have shown you that the geologic column was laid down by flood-waters. All you've done is repeatedly assert that the geologic column shows millions of years.
That's the danger of ignoring science which is a source of truth.
Says the one ignoring science in favor of his own beliefs.
Eating of the Tree of Knowledge was an extreme sport.
No, it's not.
If you did not ignore science and the geologic column,
Where have I done so?
Your repeated assertions are not science, only assertions.
The geologic column was laid down by the Flood, not millions of years. I've shown you this.
you would see that in every layer of the earth, there are predators and parasites.
Because they were all killed in the Flood.
Again, it's literally a case of you missing the forest for the trees. You're so focused on the layers in the geologic column that you've completely ignored the geologic column itself.
Because the fossil record shows there has always been death.
No, it doesn't, because the "fossil record" was laid down AFTER the fall of man, not before it. It was laid down by the Flood.
Yes. And?
Taking science truth and combining it with Paul's truth,
Truth is truth. There aren't different kinds of truth.
You clearly don't.
And when Paul talks about by one MAN death entered, he is talking of human death.
What he's talking about is separation from God.
Physical death is separation of body and soul/spirit.
Spiritual death is separation of man and God.
God told Adam "in the day you eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you shall surely die."
Guess what happened, Adam ate of the tree, and man was separated from God.
Did Adam not pull out a carrot and cause its death?
No, because plants aren't "alive" in the sense that the Bible is referring to.
“Whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who hunts and catches any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust;for it is the life of all flesh. Its blood sustains its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, ‘You shall not eat the blood of any flesh, for
the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.’ - Leviticus 17:13-14
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus17:13-14&version=NKJV
There you go, there is death.
AFTER Adam fell. Not before. Again, YOU need to explain why it was so significant for God to kill an animal and use its skin to clothe Adam and Eve that it was recorded in the Bible. Remember, Adam and Eve were not clothed before they sinned.
And in fact Cain slaying Abel was the first human death,
Yes, but it's not what Paul is referring to.
So you'r saying that God lied when He told Adam "on the day you eat of it, you shall surely die" regarding the fruit of the Tree?
So by one man Cain, death entered the world.
Nope. Cain is not who Paul is talking about, because Cain is not the progenitor of all men.
Death came to ALL men, not just descendants of Cain.
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—(For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses,
even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam,
who is a type of Him who was to come.But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. - Romans 5:12-16
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans5:12-16&version=NKJV
Months, not years since Adam and Eve had had no kids yet. Why?
Months?
You have Eve, the most beautiful woman on the planet, and Adam who was married to her, both of whom are perfectly (literally) healthy human beings, and you're going to say they waited months to have sex?
Friday, the 13th.
Eve would have been at the right time of the month in her cycle to have children.
Adam and Eve likely fell on Friday the Thirteenth, 13 days after God began creating, and 6 days after God ceased creating.
kgov.com
They didn't even last a week.
I assert that the reason you said "months" instead of "days" is that you're so convinced of long periods of timie that it has actually affected the way you think, in that you think things took longer than they actually did.
You said, "God is not caught by surprise," implying that people cannot do things that God never planned for, or even thought of, since in order for Him to be surprised about it, He would have to be unaware of it even being a possibility.[/QUOTE]