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Henry said:

It's quite possible that perfection lasted for decades. Adam had Seth at 130, and we're not told what sort of gap there was from the fall to Seth's birth. Kent Hovind, a creationist, places the fall at about 100 years after creation. There's nothing in the text that would disallow this.
If this is true then wouldn't Adam and Eve be disobeying, or at least delaying, the Divine mandate to be fruitful and multiply? Me thinks He made Adam and Eve mature from the beginning so they would begin.... A 100 year lag time does not seem to match the mandate of God IMHO. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/scratch1.gif" alt="" />

IMHO the mandate was given to be obeyed "somewhat immediately," and not with a long lag time. If God would not have desired a "somewhat immediacy" then He could have easily waited to tell Adam this mandate later. In addition,

1. Adam would have found his wife attractive, thus...the natural order that God had set in place would have....
2. There was no sin and thus conception would have been immediate.
3. What a honeymoon no sex for 100 years?

Reformed and Always Reforming,