If death had been impossible before the Fall, plants would have been able
to survive without water. How then could the absence of vegetation in Eden
before the planting of the Garden be due to lack of water, as Genesis 2
implies? Why did the Garden need a river to water it? What did Adam have
to do to take care of it? These may not constitute proofs of death before
the Fall, but I think they point that way.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
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