I know this won’t satisfy “scientific” people or non-believers, but as a believer, this is a no-brainer. If I believe in John 1:1, then Jesus was there “in beginning.” HE referred to Adam and Even in Matt. 10 and Matt. 19. Since He was there, I have to say there was an Adam and Eve.
Bingo. After reading through 63 posts (at least as I post this there is only 63), in my opinion, yours is the one that best cuts through all the noise and gets to the heart of the matter. Jesus knows more about the issue of a real Adam and Eve than all these evolutionists and Catholic theistic evolutionists on this thread put together! Yours was a great post.
“Since He was there, I have to say there was an Adam and Eve.”
I think Jesus was just sticking with the script there - reinforcing some story. Just like His disciples stuck with the script of making up the story of how He was resurrected. /s
Being resurrected is just as impossible as Creation is. So if I believe in the resurrection, it isn’t much of a stretch to believe in Creation. So while Genesis is obviously not the whole truth (it doesn’t describe the physics or chemistry of it all, etc.) - it is the story in terms of what people at the time could understand. And gets the message across that God is Creator, and that he wants a relationship with us.