modern mentality tends to think of “naming things” as a simple scientific matter of attaching labels. But here Adam is naming the beasts with a name suitable to the nature of each. As mentioned above, in the process of naming, he realizes he has found no suitable helper—no one among the animals with a nature comparable to his. He could not name any as a helper. In the verse immediately prior to this passage God had said that it was not good that man should be alone. Throughout the process of creation,