Who came first Adam and Eve or Cave Men?
So, to conclude, ‘cavemen’ as such (althoough there is little evidence many of them actually lived in caves), I believe, evolved as humanoid creatures many thousands of years ago. But, if there was a person called Adam, he may well have been the first spiritual human, created in God’s own spiritual image, who appeared on earth possibly much later. But let’s not get hung up on the literality of the creation stories of Genesis as they were never meant to be taken absolutely literally anyway. To read Genesis just as a literal story denudes it of the great truths hidden within the words – and sadly this is very much what literal Creationists do. Forget cavemen, forget Adam and Eve. The facts and truths that Genesis thunders out, if we would only see them, are that we are all made in the image of God, that we rebelled, and that spiritual death entered the world not long before we were given the chance of eternal life. In oother words, we blew it. Enter Jesus Christ who, through his life, de
