>Yes, they existed. Yes, they play important roles in our salvation history. <
How can Adam play an important role in our salvation if he was not literaly who the Bible says he was?
He was who the Bible says he was -- the first man and progenitor of our species, the man who disobeyed God in grasping for knowledge of good and evil, and found himself fallen and in need of redemption.
I do believe God formed him from the earth, just in a different way than one who takes a literal approach to the creation tale.
SD