If people took Genesis literally these arguments would be moot. How long is the ‘day’ described in Genesis? The translation itself is an error. It’s some long time period. That’s all we can know.
The Garden itself isn’t Eden, but a garden placed in a land called Eden. Where is Eden? Nobody knows because the Bible doesn’t say. How long was Adam in the Garden? Eve?
There is a literal gap between two naifs being let out into the wild, deadly world and them being able to survive. How did they start a fire? Hunt? Make clothing?
Any literal interpretation that was honest would simply state - we don’t know.
Ah, but then we couldn't run around saying how smart we were, that WE cracked the code, WE figured it out! :)
I agree with you. St. Augustine of Hippo was one of the greatest theologians Christianity has ever produced--he wrote a whole book on the Literal Interpretation of Genesis and sheepishly admitted he was asking more questions than he was answering. He offered competing interpretations and then left it up to others to decide which one was better. I wish we could be so humble today!
Personally I favor the idea that the 6 days describe prehistoric earth and include what we know as the geologic eras. And the Garden of Eden was likely somewhere in the lower Sumerian plain in the Neolithic ca. 6000-4000 BC. I don't believe it's a coincidence that this time and this place are "the Cradle of Civilization".