1. I think religion has a hard time placing Adam and Eve. But the Urantia Papers states: "74:0.1 ADAM AND EVE arrived on Urantia, from the year A.D. 1934, 37,848 years ago."
2. I cannot fathom a pure "creationists' perspective" (creation in 7 days) on god's purpose for creating many earlier prototypes of modern man. But the Urantia Papers melds the idea of creationism with evolution, and hence evolution can explain the many earlier types of man: "http://truthbook.com/urantia/topical-studies/evolution"
