Beginning with the Genesis account of creation, the Bible assures us that we’re all descendants of two people: Adam and Eve. Everyone born on the earth descended from those two people. The book of 1 Chronicles picks up that idea and follows the genealogy from Adam. The Chronicler, whom I believe was Jeremiah, begins his account with Adam. The first four verses of this book say, “Adam, Seth, Enosh; Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared; Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech; Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.” The Chronicler doesn’t question the biblical teaching about the heritage of all human life on earth.
For the Chronicler, it’s all about the connection of his present with the past, all the way back to Adam. Modern evolutionists will argue that DNA studies demonstrate that man descended from about 10,000 original family types. This reasoning begins with a presupposition and proceeds to prove that supposition. As one website records, “The claim that human genetic diversity could not have arisen from only two original people is actually not new at all. This assertion comes from mathematical simulations done in the 1990s. These simulations assume that evolution happened in order to prove evolution happened. The reasoning is entirely circular and therefore invalid.”[1] According to this writer, “Christians should also be confidently able to share the Gospel of salvation by beginning with the truth that the Bible is not anti-science. Some people may doubt God’s Word and ask, “Did we all come from Adam and Eve?” We must remain firm on the authority of God’s Word, as His Word is truth. Furthermore, the wonders of modern genetics, far from unhitching humanity from Adam, is actually completely consistent with God’s eyewitness Genesis account of His special creation of two humans—Adam and Eve, the parents of every human being ever born.”
The importance of this truth for modern Christians is undeniable. The New Testament assumes the genealogy of every person reaches back to Adam and Eve is true also. As Adam brought about the fall of man through sin, the second Adam brought about the salvation of all mankind. Our need for salvation goes back to Adam and Eve. The origin of sin and suffering and death and our need for a Savior is rooted in the truth of human origins as described in Genesis. Therefore, it is vital that Christians avoid the compromising positions presented by evolutionists and theistic evolutionists who attempt to make our first parents into a simple allegory or, at worse, a myth that is just the product of good storytelling.
[1] Did We All Come from Adam and Eve? | Answers in Genesis