Genesis 2:5-7 - God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life

2:5,6

The earth was uncultivated. Why not? Because the Lord God had not caused it to rain, and  there was no man to cultivate it. Notice the close connection between what God does and man’s role in things. God created the world with the intention that man should look after it. 

In the Hebrew the term Lord God is used repeatedly, which translates “Yahweh Elohim”, so God is kind of given a double name. This is almost unique in the Hebrew Bible. In our English translations the term “Lord God” appears many times, but is usually translating “the Lord Yahweh”.

2:7

“Then the Lord God formed the man”. Man was made both in a natural and in a spiritual sense. He was formed from the dust of the earth, and the breath of life was breathed into him by the Lord God. We are body and spirit. One of the key features of the Bible is that both body and spirit are seen as crucial to who and what we are. In God's plan they are meant to be in harmony, it is sin that has produced the disharmony between the two. Nancy Pearcey has written an excellent book called “Love Thy Body” where the key thesis of the book is that under God’s ways our bodies and who we are work together, under the world’s ideas on sexuality and other issues there is disharmony. 

This being created from the dust and having life breathed into us could be seen as allowing for evolution. Personally I don’t think evolution can explain anything like all the things it is purported to explain, but the dust-breath creation does allow for physical processes of some sort to play a part in creation.