I have been talking to a few Christians and I am noticing a trend. They claim that before the theory of evolution came along, Christians did not have an answer or care how human beings came about.
I figure that they believed their scriptures account, the creation account in Genesis.
But instead they insist that no, Christians didn't take that literally and didn't care about how humans came about.
This seems really wrong, but i am incapable to finding anything.
I didn't really know where else to go, so I came here. If anyone knows anything that can steer me towards the answer it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
No, the answer to this is very simply a literal belief in the story of Genesis, at least straight through the Middle Ages.
There were probably several thousand extant copies of the genealogy of Christ from the first two millennia, and all of them start with Adam.
Sorry this isn't a particularly complex answer, but it's a fairly simple question.