Are you suggesting that for the millions of years primates and hominids existed prior to 6,000 years or so when human spirits entered the bodies of humans without actual spirits, they didn't have agency? They couldn't make choices?
Do animals have agency?
Keep in mind that in my theory, 'preAdamites', which may or may not physically be homo sapiens, do not have spirits that are literal spirit children of God as is LDS doctrine on what makes a 'man' or 'human'.
My theory is not intended to answer questions about the intelligence of or place of nonhumans (in the doctrinal sense) nor is there any need to.
Seems to me from your perspective, any choice specific to Eve and Adam would be more like deciding to continue evolution, or stopping it?
As an analogy, it could be seen that way. Either they remained in the garden and didn't progress or they continued to progress.
Certainly they must have realized that the world had evolved for four billion years?
I don't think they were in the garden that long and considering how ancient prophets described us and out day, it doesnot follow that Adam and Eve would have the same knowledge of science that we have.
There were obviously millions of human type beings all around them including their family no?
Logically implied yes. Who knows what was in the garden and how much Adam and eve could see out of it?
Seems like a silly plan since the consequences of their choice, which of course God knew, were identical to the scenario we would have if the whole garden/fruit incident never occurred.
Not at all. Without the garden, there would be no humans in the doctrinal sense. With the Fall, they could have children whose bodies are inhabited by spirit children of God.
Another question, was the poopsnozzled world different than the post fruit world for animals?
That seems to go to the quesiton of whether or not it was the whole world in that state or just the garden. I'm not sure on the answer to that. However, I do believe it likely that the pregarden world was essentially the same as the postgarden world except that the post garden world had humans (doctrinal definition) in it.
Do you think the hominids and Homo Sapiens prior to Adam and Eve had spirits of any kind?
Yes. LDS doctrine says all living things have spirits.
Just not the same type of spirits as Adam and Eve or not the spirits created by HF and his "wives"? Animal spirits? If so, could there still be those who are alive that are descendants of those Homo Sapiens or did all those folks die off?
Anything is possible. I trend towards the die out. Perhaps equipped with spirits that were literal spirit children of God, homo sapiens supplanted everything else. Perhaps (as seems to be the case), everything else had pretty much died out anyway.
Thanks for explaining your theory! :-)
You're welcome!