I have a serious, honest question as long as we’re mentioning evolution and evolutionary history – from what I understand, evolution does NOT claim that humans descend from monkeys. It claims that humans and other primates descend from a common ancestor, which not much is known about. Being that Adam Harishon was clearly not a human in the manner that we know, e.g. he was supposedly huge, etc… and also being that the there was a snake walking on two legs, (possibly evidence of dinosaurs), could it not be that Adam was the common ancestor and Hashem then made various evolutions throughout the whole mysterious course of history to get us to where we are now? I am not so learned when it comes to torah, but I never understood the immediate rejection of some form evolution when it seems to be clear from even the torah and midrashim that people have changed DRASTICALLY throughout time.
P.S. also consider that there used to be giants and Moshe Rabbeinu was 20 amos tall