The early church had a real problem with two competing concepts. Was Jesus pre-existent or was He of virgin birth? Logically speaking these are competing myths and one had to go. For many both had to go. As you look at the first chapter of the Old Testament and the first chapter of the New Testament, you see man-made attempts to explain the unexplainable, and while they did a far better job than I could, when you get down to the common denominator, it’s ALL GOD!
The first chapter of the Old Testament are not about the details of GEOLOGY! This is an allegory, not a science lesson. And no, God didn’t create rocks with fossils already imprinted in them to look as though evolution was a valid concept. 
Regardless of what the literalists try to do with Genesis 1, it’s just God!
The same thing goes for Matthew 1. My, my, my how they tried to have it both ways. Virgin birth and yet Matthew goes to great length to trace the gynaecology back to Adam, even throwing four women in the mix to make it look good. Why the need to tie Jesus back to Adam unless you’re Jewish and want to make the “connection“, which Matthew surely did.
How the church has gone to great lengths to make itself seem legitimate and in the process has come across as the opposite of the intended goal. God doesn’t need our help. God just needs for us to SEE that IN JESUS is the WAY for humanity (you and I) to achieve the fullness of what God had in mind while here on earth.
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