Adam and Eve real people?

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So apparently the church has said that Adam and Eve were real. But how then would someone explain evolution which I think is a position that a huge amount of Catholics have?
 
I personally don’t believe in evolution, so I might not be able to help much in that respect. However, I’m pretty sure the Church allows people to believe in evolution so long as they believe that humans were created specifically by God, without any evolutionary process. I don’t know if that is actually true though, so don’t quote me on it.
 
“Adam” and “Eve” represent the original humans created by God, from which all mankind traces its lineage. The Creation Story can be viewed as myth or reality, but the fact that the first man and woman was created and not born or evolved is non-negotiable.

The belief or denial of evolution, other than the creation of this man and woman is fair game.
 
May I offer something a little different. Adam and Eve were the first man or woman created in the Image and Likeness of God. That made them human beings. Whether their actual animal bodies (man is a mammal) existed before this infusion of God’s image is up for debate. The one thing though that I don’t believe to be true is cross species evolution. That man evolved for a chimpanzee or other life form.
We must hold that Adam and Eve are our first “parents” and it was by their disobedience that sin entered this world.
 
Oh really? Thanks for letting me know. Is there any chance you could point me to a Church document that says this?
 
I fond that difficult to reconcile with the following dogma of the Church:

“Adam’s sin is transmitted to his posterity, not by imitation, but by descent. (De Fide)”
 
Right. Before Adam hominids didn’t have souls. Adam was the first human with a soul
 
Okay, I thought so.

I don’t believe in evolution anyway.
 
If Adam and Eve did not exist how would Original Sin work?
 
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I know you don’t. But I think you think evolution is something it isn’t.
 
How so? Just to be clear, I don’t believe in evolution of one organism to a completely different one.
 
The whole metaphysics argument you made before. It’s a weak argument.
 
Because God created us. Organisms don’t evolve and gain things most of the time. Via natural selection and mutations organisms lose things too
 
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