Only if one takes a strictly-literalist approach to Genesis. And for the overwhelming majority of Christian history, that hasn’t been standard approach. Such men as Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas both strongly refused a literalist interpretation, and to this day, their positions are considered orthodoxy in the Catholic Church.
Well, Jesus referred to Genesis in a literal sense. And the NT writers treated it as a historical record. Why bother tracing the lineage of Jesus all the way back to Adam if Adam was metaphor/myth who didn’t exist?
“Only if one takes a strictly-literalist approach to Genesis”
But that’s stipulated in the wager, which is what we’re talking about. Of course science could never comtradict the literary merits of mythology, if for instance we chose to read it that way.