The start of this verse means that the Lord God had formed the animals at some point before Adam. It reads the way it does because of the way language is used. Adam was not made before any of them. However, he was given a special duty which shows God’s love, and also shows man’s intended superiority over the animls, in that he was given the responsibility of naming them.
Once God formed them, and then made Adam, He sent them to Adam just as He would with Noah later. Animals have instincts that cause them to go where God leads. The fish were not part of this because they wouldn’t have been able to make the trek.
Though the Bible says that among them all was not a help meet found, that doesn’t mean every single one was tested for this purpose. They may have been, we don’t know. Before the Fall, animals were naturally obedient and tame, so it is possible that even plephants and giraffes were among the possible help meets. The giraffe would certainly have a long enough neck to reach things man couldn’t.
More importantly, the fact that whatever Adam called them, that was the name of them, shows the incredible mind that Adam and Eve had. Consider the vast imagination, the incredible perception, and the mental stamina that Adam had to have to be ble to name all those animals. True, we only had kinds, as noted earlier. There was only one canine, not a wolf many breeds of dog, and so on. However, it still required a genius to be able to do allo of this. This demonstrates how far people have come since the Fall.Not only have our bodies broken down, so, too, have our minds.
So, what did he call them? He likely used names that would describe them in some way. Perhaps it was by their looks, their agility, or something else. It’s possible that these were even scientific-type names, though that isn’t as likely. The term implies that they were what the animals were regularly called. On the other hand, it’s not out of the question that Adam engaged in scientific classification as well. It’s not certain that he only gave one name to every creature. Even if this was only done later, it still shows Adam’s mind. It also demonstrates that language was granted to man immediately.
