Literal days are specified, morning and evening of each day of Creation, morning and evening of the first day, the morning and evening of the second, etc.,
My argument is unscathed by that. Perhaps you didn't understand what I said.
... including a list of generations from Adam.
While Adam was the first man (by God's reckoning), Genesis does not state that he was the first member of his (our) zoological species. "Forming him from the mud" is shorthand allegory for the natural processes that led to his coming into existence. It had already been stated, after all, that God commanded the waters to bring forth all the moving creatures that have life. That's an all inclusive statement. Adam was a moving creature that had life.
