“Many will point out that Adam had only Eve. That was God’s choice in THAT case. I’m a fairly bright man but I won’t try to extrapolate from such scant data that God meant all humans had to pair off in similar unions.”
“Whinney?” You have something backwards, I believe that sound comes from the other end of the horse.
A number of God’s prophets maintained more than one wife. In fact, it was common - in cases where a husband died - his wife became the wife of his brother. Remember, there was no State Welfare systems then and the new widow would have had no one to provide for her and her children.
You need to read more than just those parts you agree with.
Then why do you go the opposite direction and assume that polygamy is OK with GOD?
This is true; but how many of those guys ACTIVELY sought out another woman?