I currently consider the first few chapters of Genesis to be mythological in the positive sense (that is, I think they were fictional stories written to illustrate what the author believed are true facts about God, not a deliberate deception. Think of how George Orwell wrote a fictional tale about talking animals to illustrate what really happened in the Russian Revolution). So I'm not convinced that Adam and Eve were two literal people so much as symbolic archetypes of humanity.
That said, I suppose another theistic evolutionist could argue that Adam and Eve were literal people, in which case they could simply be the first human beings who evolved enough to have a full awareness of God. Under this scenario, I suppose one could argue that the humans who lived and died before Adam and Eve were morally equivalent to infants who died before the hypothetical age of accountability. More simply put, Adam and Eve were the first humans who could be held accountable for sin.
That said, I suppose another theistic evolutionist could argue that Adam and Eve were literal people, in which case they could simply be the first human beings who evolved enough to have a full awareness of God. Under this scenario, I suppose one could argue that the humans who lived and died before Adam and Eve were morally equivalent to infants who died before the hypothetical age of accountability. More simply put, Adam and Eve were the first humans who could be held accountable for sin.
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