Why is the de novo creation of Adam and Eve important?

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@John_Bauer

It is evident that you think they’ve made some kind of clear statement about why a de novo creation of Adam and Eve is important, and it’s apparent that I have somehow managed to miss what you regard as so clear.

Well, quoting them in the references I listed above:

Keller says:

@swamidass

But when I read the text, I look, and sure looks like its saying that God created Adam and Eve, and he didn’t just adopt a former human-like being, and adopt him and put the Image of God on him. It doesn’t seem like that is what it is saying. It says “created out of the dust of the ground.” And I do think in the end, even if I could be wrong on reading that text, I’ve got to have my reading of the text correct my understanding of the science.

@swamidass

But if you go back to the text, and you come to your conclusion as far as you can say, “Before God I’m trying my best to read this as I think what the Scripture says.” Right now, it says to me, you know, there is an Adam and Eve, and everyone came from Adam and Eve, and they were a special creation, and so even though I don’t have an answer to my scientist friends, that is where I stand.

And Ken Keathley says:

Take for example, the account of God creating Eve from Adam’s rib:

“So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.”—Gen 2:21-22 (ESV)

Should we understand, as some theistic evolutionists suggest, that the real message of these verses is that God gave a female hominid the same awareness of the divine that He gave to a male hominid? Is this the intended meaning of the account? I just don’t see how we can arrive at such an understanding with integrity.
Southern Baptist Voices: Expressing Our Concerns - BioLogos

That seems pretty clear to me. These, also, are just a couple quotes. There are many more.

@John_Bauer

Therefore, I am kindly asking you to succinctly indicate what those reasons happen to be, so that it may become clear to me, too, when I reexamine their material.

Does that make more sense of it?