Evolution Adam and Eve

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Salam

I was reading this Nat Geo article that caught my attention. Neanderthals lived for a long time before modern humans, and apparently they could speak, conducted funeral rituals, drew pictures, etc. They sound quite human to me, but they lived separately from "modern humans" for thousands of years.

Apparently today's humans have Neanderthal DNA, indicating a common ancestor between the 2 subspecies. However, Adam and Eve were the first humans, weren't they? And all other humans were descended from them? This is my understanding of the issue from monotheistic scripture. So is it possible that Adam and Eve were the common ancestors of modern humans and Neanderthals, and they sort of evolved into these 2 different races as time passed?

However, a common ancestor of both subspecies would have been distinctly simpler than even Neanderthals. It's unclear whether such an ancestor would have been able to speak, let alone be a vicegerent of God.

So what happened with this whole evolution thing, and where did Adam and Eve come in? Were they before both Neanderthals and modern humans, or what? Neanderthals and modern humans had to share ancestor(s), since they're related. However it's unclear whether these ancestors were Adam and Eve, or if they were even human.

Where do you draw the line between evolution and religion? Adam and Eve had to be fully human, but I'm not even sure what constitutes a "fully human" being at that time.

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This is a thread on which Joseph shared his opinion:

http://quransmessage.com/forum/index.php?topic=370.msg1112#msg1112

He says that early human species (or kind of human species, like apes or semi-apes) and modern humans shared a common ancestor.

But this common ancestor cannot be Adam and Eve. Their progeny couldn't possibly have included monkeys.

So were Adam and Eve part of the pretty-much-human subspecies that developed from this "common ancestor"? But they didn't have parents, did they?

I would like for Brother JAI and forum members to clarify this issue

Sorry, edit--Brother JAI stated that when God created Adam, he did it by initiating a très long evolutionary process. So Adam had parents that originated from this insanely long evolutionary process? I'm so confused.