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you are right about Adam and Eve -- evolution happens in populations, not individuals. so the idea of just two first humans becomes absurd. so the Church venerating them as Saints becomes absurd ...
Im afraid that I need to disagree. Adam and Eve were the names of the earliest recorded Hebrew couple. They were remembered as people of faith, and there was much legend that sprang up concerning them, as they became the central actors in the creation mythology of the Hebrews and hence should be regarded as very significant. So, its not really that absurd that the Church would honor them. It would be far more absurd to entertain the idea that they were the only human beings who existed at that time, being that Cain fled his homeland and took for himself a wife from a neighboring tribe of people after killing Abel. And then he founded a new city.
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