Doubts About William Lane Craig's 'Historical Adam'

William Lane Craig ("The Historical Adam," October 2021) believes that a being corresponding to the biblical Adam actually existed. Paul's typology of Adam and Christ, he argues, requires an historical, as opposed to a merely literary, Adam (Rom. 5:12-21). But this isn't your Fundamentalist grandma's Adam. According to Craig, Adam didn't exist at the beginning of time, but was preceded by billions of years and many varieties of semi-humans. Adam wasn't formed from the dust of the ground nor was Eve built from Adam's rib; our first parents were selected from the ancestors of Homo sapiens known as Homo heidelbergensis. They didn't live in an idyllic paradise called Eden, nor were they tempted by a talking snake, though they did disobey God, were alienated from him, and unleashed sin and death into the world.