Since this book follows the timeline laid out in Genesis, the earth is only thousands of years old. Animals, plants and insects that were supposedly separated by large time frames of billions of years exist together at one time along with mankind.
However, animals themselves are not straightforward though. For one, many of the animal sub-kinds do not exist in this book. For instance, there are no zebras (only horses) or tigers (only saber-toothed tigers or gurmidnum as they are called), but there are animals that would have had the genetic coding that would eventually lead to such derivative creatures.
The "original" creations of the Garden were complete with Genetic coding to create every sub-kind in it's group. For example, there is a type of cow that contains genetic coding for a variety of sizes and colors. With man's help breeding and on there own, this type eventually crates a multitude of bovine sub-kinds (cows, oxen, sabu, etc.) The same pertains to dinosaurs, insects, vegetation, sea creatures, and all other land mammals.
In dealing with the issue of naming animals, many that have similar descendants that live today take the name of today's animals. For those that are extinct, like dinosaurs, there names are created using the ancient Sumerian language. We wanted to pick older languages for creatures that were closer to dinosaurs ( like sabre toothed tigers) but pre-cursor animals that are similar to the creatures of today (like the horses we use in the book) are called by today's names. The plant world is similar. Common plants use today's words while extinct, and less common plants use the Sumerian language for their names.
In dealing with the time frame of this story, animals have already begun to form sub-kinds and chose certain areas to roam.
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