How? When God says that He took the dust of the earth to form man and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, it precludes using animals.
Animals are already alive, so there wouldn’t be the need to breath the breath of life into man.
Evos ask if God didn’t use evolution, why didn’t He say so. Well, He did. Evos just aren’t listening.
He’s presupposing soil consisting of decayed animal matter, forgetting that corruption, decay and death did not enter into Creation until the Fall.
>>He took the dust of the earth to form man
>>and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life
He did - over millions of years.
You yourself have articulated the notion that much of the Bible isn’t meant to be interpreted literally.
God-directed mutation and macro-evolution does not contradict the illustration of Dust and Nostrils - rather these models simply enable us to see the workings of the process from a modern perspective, in the context of Scientific knowledge.