Forgive my stupidity and slowness but I've just realized something.
In your 45 years of teaching you've apparently read Clarence Larkin's book "Dispesational Truth?"
Did you mean the author was capable of inconsistency.
I'm exploring the possibility that the author wasn't. That means not coming to a seeming inconsistency and saying there it is, my work is done here.
I can answer every point you bring up. I've done so with some of them to point out either their errancy or irrelevance. Each time I'm answered with more errancy and irrelevance. So, your right teach, there's no point in continuing down your rabbit holes. Have a good day. :)
This is adaptation. It's a process driven function and as such has no motivation. Existing mutations may help an organism survive through the mindless process of adaptation.
I sorry. These things are just far too afield of the op for me to want to purse them in this thread. Maybe another time.
Your posts have so many avenues to hash out that I fear I might need an eternity to flesh out and put them into the narrative of verses 1 and 2. I also see a pattern of...
You mentioned assumptions then went on ahead with yours. First you assume God created everything and he created it ex nihlo.
I fail to see how Genesis1:26 shows that Jesus created everything.
The canopy? The firmament separated the waters from above from the waters below and God put the sun...