How does this account reflect it truly being of Divine origin?
…God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. …And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds… all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds.” And God saw that it was good.
(Genesis 1:11-12; 24-25)
Why bring up a subject that is so intrinsically obvious to everyone?
A little perspective is needed perhaps. Imagine you go running up to someone, all excited – and not just anyone, a scientist – a biologist even – and you tell him, “This is incredible! Beings reproducing according to their own kind! Amazing!” How would that biologist respond? My guess is that he would seriously question whether or not the substance in your cranial cavity consisted of excrement. “Of course, beings produce according to their own kind! Those are the absolutes of the universe.”
But you see that’s just it – they’re not! They are only the relative truths of the box we live in. What did Jesus say to a religious group of his day?
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage…
(Matthew 22:30a)
The implication is that going forward for eternity, there will be no more reproduction. And Jesus didn’t stop there…
…they will be like the angels in heaven.
(Matthew 22:30b)
The implication there is that the same holds true going back through eternity past. Reproduction is therefore the aberration – not the norm – local only to this world we live in! At any other point in eternity, anything alive was alive because God created it as such. And who but God could have imagined a world where beings give life to other beings?! And the fact that Scripture treats it as such – as an “ah ha” moment if you will worthy of our attention and wonder – reflects that its perspective is rooted in eternity and not just the box we live in.