Those are details. It is almost impossible to argue a "start from scratch" creation theory, at least where mankind is concerned.
Sinkspur you said in post 50
"Those are details. It is almost impossible to argue a "start from scratch" creation theory, at least where mankind is concerned."
Your statement is wrong. If you are right then Thomas Aguinas is wrong, Augustine, Pope Leo XIII, Pius XII and most of the Early Church fathers and countless Christians who take the book of Genesis and the creation of Adam and Eve as historical events which happened in the way it was written and not a silly myth as you seem to think it is.
Read my post #321 where I quote all of the above on the origins topic including G.K. Chesterton. You take the side of Aldux Huxley and H.G. Wells except that you admit that it was God who put the soul into our first parents. So do you think our first parents were not one man and one woman but a group of people as Karl Rahner thought? In other words a group of "humanoids" who had souls put in them? He didn’t believe in original sin you know. This was condemned by Pius XII. The Church has always taught that God created the first man as an adult man and that woman was taken from the man. God is God he can do anything. Augustine thought God created the world in one day wherease most of the others taught 6 days. Orthodox Jewish Scholars and non Orthodox libeal Jews say that the author/s of Genesis taught that creation was in 6 24 hour periods and that those who believe in evolution will not find its support in scripture because evolution teaches that man evolved over a perioud of thousands of years.
So are you a fan of Teilhard de Chardin ?