Quote Originally Posted by Squillem
Could you please provide a QUOTE from the Bible that refers to Humans existing before Adam and Eve. I've looked through Genesis and it says that God created humankind, on the 5th day after the creation of the universe.
The Bible doesn't say humans existed before Adam and Eve. Pre-Adamic men are not human since they are not made in God's image. That is, God has not for them breathed in the breath of life. But for Adam and Eve God directly created their spirit and when their spirit made contact with the body fully developed from pre-Adamic evolution, they became living souls with a spirit and a body.

It's actually the 6th day that man was created, not the 5th day. Gen. 1.1 God created perfectly over 13.8 billion years. Then verse 2 says God caused earth to be desolate and waste because of the sin of the inhabitants of earth's earliest ages - dinosaurs. What follows was the restoration of creation in which there were 6 twenty-four hour days that sum up the period of restoration. And on that 6th day 4000 BC God created Adam and Eve.

"[1:23] And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
[1:24] And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind." And it was so.
[1:25] God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.
[1:26] Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
[1:27] So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."
The male and female it refers to are Adam and Eve, as is clarified later in Genesis.
"[2:7] then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being."
(Adam)
"[2:22] And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man."
(Eve)

The Bible, at no point, EVER mentions Adam and/or Eve encountering any other human beings. If you disagree, please provide quotes to prove me wrong.
The Bible is 66 books. If we were to include all the happenings of Adam and Eve there would not be enough space for the stuff that really matters so the Bible tracks one family line which allows for relations with other people at that time. Adam and Eve were not saved since they rebelled against God and never repented. So their story ends there other than the mention of their descendants. The spiritual significance should be in view not petty arguments about how many of Adam's descendants were relationships with other women. That line of thinking doesn't produce much spiritual value to strengthen in your innerman. Was it 1/3 or 2/3rds who can say?

We have fossil remains of other people that are not strictly descendants of Adam and Eve and so Adam and Eve become representative of the human race. The point being from 4000 BC onward all pre-Adamic men became Adamic, that is to say, they had God-consciousness and once you have God-consciousness you can never cease to exist. You will be resurrected either to be with the saints or with the unregenerates in Hell.

Think how evil it would be of God to make you aware of His existence and then be told you will just cease to exist. What love is that? God created us in His image and to do so implies a permanently existing spirit, soul and body for God's image never ceases to exist. We are unique among the stars the only planet in the universe that contains life.

If you were wondering what this view of creation is called: it is "gap restoration". You can read a detailed study here,

Download Mystery of Creation, CFP white cover, by Watchman Nee on the teaching of Gap Restoration.

Chapter 1 & 2 - (1) Genesis & Geology and (2) Mystery of Creation Chapter 3 - Restoration of the Earth in 6 [Summary] Days