Never Children

This Bizarro cartoon gets at one of the problems with the idea that Adam and Eve were created instantaneously as adults, or even as grown children. For that to have happened, the things that humans normally learn growing up would have had to have been pre-programmed into them. And that creates issues, perhaps especially for those who think that humans were created with free will, and that that is important.

If you want to create intelligent sentient beings while avoiding this problem, creation through an evolutionary process is a good solution. And so far from evolution being theologically problematic, it is theologically helpful for those who understand human beings and our creation in a particular way.