"Although the exact doctrine that Adam and Eve were the first parents of all men since their time has never been defined, still one is struck by the fact that all the ecclesiastical documents concerning them take this for granted. The Council of Carthage in 418; the Council of Orange in 529; and the Council of Trent in 1546 - to mention outstanding and ecumenical examples, all speak of original sin, and in this connection of one Adam.
"The Biblical Commission, in 1909, mentions "the unity of the human race" as one of the fundamental doctrines reported in Genesis. All the Scriptural references dealing with our first parents plainly take it for granted that there was one man and one woman. Pope Pius XII, however, does not so much lean on the Scriptures in drawing up his condemnation of polygenism. He emphasizes the evident irreconcilability of Catholic doctrine concerning original sin with polygenism." 15
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