I believe that little by little, the church is giving away its basic beliefs. If I person can’t open the Bible, read Genesis, and come up with the correct message that God created man (and woman) in his likeness, unique from all the other animals, then that person cannot believe anything in the Bible.
Ugh! If a (NOT i) person . . .
God made man and woman in his image. But the “image” is the soul.
The body could have evolved, until God placed a soul into it. Much of the creation story is about our relationship with God, that He didn’t spring from creation (as in pagan myths) but made the world from nothing.
Curiously, at one point, if you believe DNA studies, there was a “bump” in evolution, and we all are descended from that one man.