Oh, I did have that battle with the clergy as well.
And:
“The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
Why didn’t they/he create Eve just as easily as they/he did Adam? Because Eve was a genetically modified hybrid of them and Adam. Adam was a complicated hybrid to create. It took hundreds of thousands of years of trail and error to genetically modify apes into modern humans in stages to allow for natural genetic adaptation and survival of the fittest before each next stage. So to create Eve they instead used Adam’s DNA as a shortcut.
Sounds crazy right? But it rules out evolution because evolution cannot actually make sense as it is proposed. Yet it explains the reality of the very real early hominid species and hybridization that DID happen.