“Mary was the “new Eve,” as I remember and thus Jesus was the “new Adam” who died for our sins.”
As Adam and Eve were married and had children, that’s a pretty creepy way of looking at it, IMO.
Well, that was the way we were meant to decipher our beginnings. It doesn't really matter exactly when and how we began, but there were hominids and Neanderthals back then, they just weren't "homo sapiens sapiens" like we are now.
SOMETHING happened somewhere in time that ignited the brain and conscience together to form what we are today.