I relly really am not sure Russ. I can go with the common view, a sister,,, if you were my pastor I certainly wouldn;t argue otherwise because it is possible... but the thing is...

when Cain gets admonished by God and God sends him away, Cain's first concern is that someone else might kill him. If there weren't any other people, if God only made Adam and Eve, and no others, why would he be concerned about that?

Also, a bit further along in Genesis, Lamech murders. My KJV says he murdered a man. My JPS Tanakh says he killed a man and a boy. Who are these people and why are they strange enough to Lamech to result in confrontation which leads to death?

The bible in any form tells us that it is the geneology/record of Adam. Adam's line. but it doesn't rule out that God did not make any other people. Accounting for different races, races vastly different in appearance from each other becomes another problem if God only created Adam. Adam was the first man is all I know for sure. God created dinosaurs too but there isn't hardly but a mere mentions of a monster or two in the whole book.

Also the living soul thing... God created Adam and made him a living soul... there is some discusion later in the bible about tribes of people, some of whom are mentioned as living souls and others who are not discussed in that manner.

I can go either way really, I don't see that it matters at this point in time, but I can't really set for sure on either option because the bible isn't fully clear about it far as i can tell..

Seriously, if the evolutuonists hadn't used that point they would have found another. Their 'I don't knows' haven't held them back from much.

I do agree about the DNA factor in regard to inheritaed messed up genes being probably quite rare, rather even, non-existent during Cain's time. Whether God created only Adam or others, certainly he did not create any of them imperfect. Imperfection, disease has been acquired through time, environment. Sin. Pardon me for using the word everyone.