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Please try not to be insulting and condescending.

At Lourdes, the Blessed Virgin Mary said: I am the Immaculate Conception.

She did not misspeak.

Adam nor Eve were, for a time, also immaculate. However, unlike Mary, they were not conceived. Instead, Adam and Eve were created by the very hand of God.

(Thus both scripture and now Mary herself prove that the human race did not descend from apes.)

Eve, immaculate from the moment of her crration, nevertheless sinned. Disobedience was her tragic downfall.

Catholics refer to the Blessed Virgin Mary Mary as the new Eve. Mary was immaculate from the moment of her conception. Like Eve, Mary was human, had free will, and could have exercised that free will in a way contrary to the mind of God. It may seem “inconceivable”, so to speak, but Mary was capable of sinning. She was not superhuman. She, though immaculate, like Eve, could have sinned, like Eve. Unlike Eve, however, Mary did not sin, but remained perfectly obedient to God.

In asking everyone to confirm that they believe that Eve sinned, I was asking everyone to acknowledge that one is not rendered impervious to temptation, impervious to sin, simply because one is free both of Original Sin, and of the stain of Original Sin.

Eve fell, despite possessing absolute purity.

Mary did not fall. When Gabriel came, she gave her Fiat. When the sword pierced her heart, she remained steadfast.

Behold your mother.