It is possibly important because it allows Adam and Eve, possibly, to convey some genetic benefit to all humans alive today? For me, this just gets far to speculative to place my feet down. I’m all for being honest with people about what the evidence allows, but I suspect that the Genealogical Adam (de novo or not) is going to be far more useful to theologians in the end. I think the main reason theologians wanted genetic descent was primarily because they didn’t know there were other types available that were more connected to the genesis text.
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