I asked because I just heard a minister on the radio make a great point. He said if you do not believe in literal creation..then there was no literal Adam and Eve. If there was no literal Adam and Eve there was no Garden.If there was no garden there was no tree of knowledge of good and evil. If there was no tree of knowledge good and evil then Eve never disobeyed God and ate of the fruit.If Eve never ate neither did Adam.
If Adam never ate the fruit in disobedience to God there was no sin of Adam ,there was no sin separation between God and man.
There was no need for "the second Adam" Christ to come to earth in the form of a man to reconcile man to himself .
I had never considered how often one book or "story " build on another.Before long you have denied Christ and His purpose
There was an Adam and Eve. Scientists have discovered that all men and women stem from one women (using mitochondrial rna). She just happened to not be a homo sapien sapien.... we've evolved since then. I'm sure that there was one man as well, but you can't use mitochondia to determine that as its passed on only from the mother.
EVE in Africa