Our FIRST Parents

Someone tried that secular claim on me again recently. He said "Adam and Eve descended from simian forebears". Nope. If Adam and Eve were "our first parents" as the Catechism requires, then they could not have had "parents" themselves; they could not "descend" from anyone. Evolution teaches that beings go through gradual changes over millennia, and that would mean that the same would be true for Adam and Eve who (according to this errant view) were in that line of descent. Yet there could not be a "radical change" in Adam and Eve from a previous set of "monkey" parents; even evolution says you do not go from an ape parent to a human child in one generation.

Jesus Himself says that "from the beginning of creation God made them male and female". That means that Adam and Eve were at the "beginning of creation" (during that very first week) and not at some point later in time many millennia afterwards (as is claimed by many who attempt to reconcile evolutionary theory with the belief in the existence of Adam and Eve). The question we are forced to ask ourselves is simple: do we accept scientific theory first or the clear testimony of the Church and Scripture first? It cannot be both. When it comes down to it, I would rather be found wrong because I trusted the simple words of Scripture over a scientific theory, than wrong because I denied Scripture for the sake of a scientific theory!