More double-talk “please both sides” rhetoric from Catholic “theistic evolutionists.”
Trying to read through this made my head hurt. The author seems to be arguing that, according to Catholic doctrine, two distinct individual homo sapiens ("Adam and Eve") can be identified within the broader population of evolving former-primates, and that it was these two individuals within the broader population of evolving former-primates who sinned and cursed the other evolving former-primates and thus the entire emerging human race.
Perhaps a better question to put to the author would have been "Did a Literal Garden of Eden, and a Literal Tree Of Life, Really Exist"?
Bingo. Seems like are now forced to pile up a whole lot of arguments just to distract from the simple observation that their inherently weak “compromise” position has created this conflict in the first place.
They do get one point right, and that is this:
“First, Church teaching about Adam and Eve has not, and cannot, change.”
The problem is that the Catholic Church has changed its teaching about everything surrounding the creation of Adam and Eve, while trying to pretend that they can retain the core belief unchanged. I don’t think that is really feasible.