Note however, Homo sapiens eventually spread throughout the planet and is the only surviving hominin species. That is a fact, and it is stunning when you stop and ... Meanwhile, reason does not compel us to claim that Adam and Eve were figurative. read more
As the Bible only supposes the existence of modern humans, Adam and Eve were modern humans. As modern humans they would be classified as Homo Sapiens, they would be too. Even if we question if they were modern humans, their story supposedly took place roughly 6,000 years ago. read more
I voted that Adam and Eve were homo sapiens. The reason being that the mythological characters were supposed to represent modern man, the humans the tellers of the myth would have imagined them as. I voted for both Christ is a mythological character, and that he died for homo sapiens, for the same reasons. read more