If adam and eve were already here...

How did god take the credit for making life? If they were sitting under that apple tree they were already there. They already existed. So how does he claim to have made us all. Why did it take all that time in between to get mary and joseph pregnant?...

Sorry if this is confusing but I dont really understand it myself. Just try to explain any of it. Ta
I like to learn !

Really dont have idea about religion at all and am interested.

lol, I'm no expert and there are inconsistencies in the bible but according to Genesis

1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2:7: And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

2:17: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

3:6: And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

So first God created everything, then man (assuming you meant the tree of knowledge?)

So that was in the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) about the beginning of life

Now most of the rest of the Bible talks about the Hebrews (Jewish people) and their lives, the geneology and basic history... how they disobeyed God and were punished for it, but there is reference to the Messiah, the one who will come and save, well actually the Jewish people...

Then the Christians came along and wrote the New Testament, and Jesus is supposed to be the savior of all people. Why Mary and why that time... well it was God's will

(this is my limited understanding, feel free to make corrections/additions)

If there was really an adam.. and an eve, we would not be living at all today because if we all came from two people, the gene pool would be so shallow because we would all be so imbred... leaving us after a while with deformities, weak immune systems, etc. Basically, we would all have been dead a LONG time ago if we all came from only two people..

Well Adam and Eve was made by God. He also created Heaven and Earth.

Uh we wouldnt be dead were all very distant cusins.
Plus after the flood there was noah and his family left..and im sure his sons and daughters were married.

lol, uhm yeah his sons and daughters may have been married, but at the end of the day they still came from adam and eve according to the bible, so not only were they distant cousins, but apparently their kids married their own cousins (so more inbreeding...)

GOD created Adam then took a lung from Adam to create Eve

That was "God created Adam, then took a RIB from Adam to create Eve".

Anyway, Genesis is a story about WHY we are here. I'm a christian and I don't take it literally. I told one of my atheist friends that when God was explaining the beginning to man, explaining amino acids, single celled organisms evolving to more complex organisms, man said "huh?". Then God said, "never mind, just put down I created everything in 6 days and took a day off so we can enjoy the weekend."

Anyway, I have come to believe that Genesis is like Jesus' parables, explaining the meaning in a story that is easier to comprehend. God created us, he planted a seed (hence the analogy of the garden, God as the Gardener) and then pruned the plants now and again.

Yeh I thought is was a rib lol

Ok, find a bible, and read GENESIS. It's all about the creation of the earth, and Humans ans animals.