So did you decide what REplenish means?  That the earth needed to be re-plenished.  It says  that there was probably life before Adam.  You can't replenish something that was never plenished.

I find that amazing.  How  could someone only a few thousand years ago write an account of the life on earth before Adam with such  scientific accuracy on their own?!!    They had no way of knowing anything about such things.   That information had to come from a God that inspired the writer of Genesis.  I think it says for certain that the Bible is the word of God.

 God revealed it.  Someone wrote it down.  Truth always stays true.  The writer didn't know about dinosaurs,  but could use the word "Replenish"  without any problem at all.  He trusted God's supreme knowledge over his own  limited knowledge.

Science that is fact--and not theory--will never be in contradiction with God's word.  Because God's word is truth.  Truth that always stays true.  It never changes.  The theories of man change all the time.  I have a collection of publications that I have cut from newspapers, scientific journals, etc. that go back for over fifty years that announce that "they" have changed their mind about something.  Or revised "their" theory about something.  You never have to revise the Bible.

Day six is almost over. but God speaks again to the male and female:  He has given them their first instruction.  "Be fruitful and multiply.  Replenish the earth."  Now he tells them something else.

Genesis 1:29  "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face on the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."  At this point, man was a vegetarian. Fruit and herbs were their meat.  No animal had to die for them to eat food.

Was Adam the first man.  Yes.  He was the first man we know anything about.  He was a very different kind of man than any creature that had come before him.  How???  Continued............