I asked him, what was God doing the day, the week, the month before he created humans? Nothing?
An omniscient Being who can and did create a universe by speaking it into existence was just sitting on his back porch in heaven doing nothing but sipping his mug of hot--albeit heavenly--cup of joe? He had never done anything, never created anything...was all alone except for attending angels?
Then one day (of a thousand years), all alone doing nothing FOREVER, having never done anything, he decides speaks humans--and no one else mind you--into existence?
I asked my acquaintance, "do you suppose that's even roughly the way it might have happened?"
More than a handful of angels. The bible indicates there are large numbers highly advanced, non-carbon based life forms out there.
Mat 26:53 Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?Heb 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
Rev 5:11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders.
Long complex story. We do not know enough to even make a good guess.
We are so limited. We live in time, and cannot understand fully a God who does not, and is not constrained by it - He created it.
He is outside of it, and sees the beginning from the end.
There will come a “time” when “time” no longer exists for us, I believe. Eternity is not unlimited time, it is not made of time - it just IS.