Having a patient God waiting all that time for men to appear ...”
There is no time to God. Time is an invention of His which He is outside of. He can see the beginning and the end at once. I think that time in the terms that we understand it is utterly meaningless to him. For Him Time would begin when His Word was upon the earth and recorded and understood by at least one man.
I’ve often wondered why it’s written that ‘the EVENING and morning were the first day. Why it was written as the evening first.