None of these matters would matter if Adam and Eve were the first human beings, which the literal interpretation traditionally has assumed. Once expelled from the Garden, they would not have to speak the same language or observe the same customs as the people nearby, because there would be no people, language, or culture outside the Garden to worry about. The point is moot. Adam and Eve and their offspring are the inventors of those things.
However, once you say that a literal Adam and Eve were not the first humans, then you open a whole new can of worms. If they had to speak an existing language and fit into an existing culture after their expulsion from the Garden, then the obvious questions are how they learned that language (any language!) and the norms of that culture.
Frankly, I don’t see how anyone – ancient or modern – could read Genesis 2-3 and conclude that the story is not about the creation and fall of the first humans. That is the point of the biblical teaching, and that’s what we’re discussing.
Incorrect. You really have no concept of children’s learning and brain development. Again, the limitations are not on God, but the children. Chomsky’s idea that children are born with a “universal grammar” was based on his observation that they are not exposed to enough conversational examples to acquire all the grammatical features of their native language. This is called the “poverty of the stimulus” argument. Chomsky was incorrect because he underestimated the number of examples that children passively observe, but he wouldn’t be wrong in the “recent Adam” scenario. If A&E’s only conversational partner is God, then the Lord better be in a talkative mood for at least a decade to make up the deficit.
God is spirit. The notion that he played nursemaid to Adam and Eve is ridiculous, as well as … Incorrect.
Incorrect. During the period you describe – 10,000 years ago +/- 4000 – the Fertile Crescent was the most populous place on the globe. By 4000 B.C., roughly 4 million people lived up and down those rivers, which is about the population density of New Mexico, also clustered around a river through the desert. “Sophisticated” language already existed 50,000 years ago, else the “Great Leap Forward” could not have happened, and “sophisticated” culture has been with us even longer than that.
Incorrect. I have described the problems with the idea from the standpoint of actual science and history. Your defense of the idea has been a series of special pleadings that amount to “God can do anything.” Sorry. That doesn’t work for me. Others are free to form their own opinions.