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[Does the Catholic Church Teach That Adam and Eve Are Myths?] Answer: No, it is not. Below are nine teachings of the Church regarding the first three chapters of Genesis. These teachings can be found in a document which was issued by the Pontifical Biblical Commission, and confirmed by Pope St. Pius X in 1909. These teachings have been the constant teachings of the Church throughout the centuries, and the Pontifical Biblical Commission expounded them in 1909 as a response to the errors of the Modernists that had developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Modernists were, among other things, denying the reality of Adam and Eve.

Myths? No. Two fully-formed, unevolved adult homo sapiens, the only two homo sapiens on the entire planet, residing in a literal Garden of Eden, with a literal Tree of Life? Not even close.

Last year we got a thread from a Catholic apologist addressing the same question (Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?) in which the author argued that Catholic doctrine allows for two distinct individual homo sapiens ("Adam and Eve") which could be identified existing within a broader population of co-existing, co-evolving former-primates, and that it was these two individuals who sinned and cursed all of the other evolving former-primates and thus the entire emerging human race.

Catholic doctrine allows for two distinct individual homo sapiens ("Adam and Eve") which could be identified existing within a broader population of co-existing, co-evolving former-primates, and that it was these two individuals who sinned and cursed all of the other evolving former-primates and thus the entire emerging human race.

Without death, how did these former-primates evolve?

Last year we got a thread from a Catholic apologist addressing the same question (Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?) in which the author argued that Catholic doctrine allows for two distinct individual homo sapiens ("Adam and Eve") which could be identified existing within a broader population of co-existing, co-evolving former-primates, and that it was these two individuals who sinned and cursed all of the other evolving former-primates and thus the entire emerging human race.

Interesting, I have read similar statements outside the Roman Catholic Church. Once such argument is there were other homo sapiens sapiens but God pulled Adam and Eve into the Garden. Today humans can be traced to Adam and Eve because all other lineage died-off. This theory would solve the DNA lineage issue while at the same time keep open an actual Adam and Eve. (Without a real first Adam how can you have a real second Adam.)

The problem is this "theory" is not really a theory but a way to appease creationist and evolution. As with any "bi-partisan" solution, it will not satisfy either party. Evolutionist will still wink and say "whatever your Christians want to believe" while creationist will argue that this comprises does not address that GOD uniquely created Adam and Eve.

Myths? No. Two fully-formed, unevolved adult homo sapiens, the only two homo sapiens on the entire planet, residing in a literal Garden of Eden, with a literal Tree of Life? Not even close.

Last year we got a thread from a Catholic apologist addressing the same question (Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?) in which the author argued that Catholic doctrine allows for two distinct individual homo sapiens ("Adam and Eve") which could be identified existing within a broader population of co-existing, co-evolving former-primates, and that it was these two individuals who sinned and cursed all of the other evolving former-primates and thus the entire emerging human race.

Even when Catholics "defend" Genesis they wind up ripping it to shreds.