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God did create Adam and Eve. In Genesis 2. God created humanity in general in Genesis 1. It is generally held by (((authorities))) on the matter that this indicates that Adam and Eve were not the first homo sapiens, but Adam was the first homo sapien to receive a soul "breathed in to him" and thus prior to Adam "humanity" were no different than animals, pretty much. People have long known that Adam and Eve generating all descendants doesn't really make a whole lot of sense because of inbreeding and so on. There were other humans that the family of Adam bred with. However, Eve is "Mitochondrial Eve" and today, all post-flood humans are descendants of her matrilineally. One reason for the flood was to cleanse the earth of the abominations of mankind, and that primarily means the soulless animals because it was the line of Adam and Eve that was preserved. There may have been other survivors of the flood in other places, as the flood myth is almost universal worldwide and various people survived it by making boats, rafts of tied together canoes, or fleeing to very high mountain peaks. The study of comparative flood myths is pretty fascinating, actually, because it indicates to me that there is a historical accuracy to it, that a real flood event occurred. The best candidate for this is the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, and/or the various meltwater pulses in that same period, roughly 11,500 years before present. Biblical history is probably condensed. Most Kabbalistic scholars put the age of the universe at about 15 billion years, because "a thousand years is but a day in your sight" so 1000 * 365 = 365,000 years in a "God year" times 6000 is 2.19 billion, which is supposedly the length of a "day of creation." God created in seven days, and we are currently in either the sixth or seventh day. So the age of the universe is between 13.14 billion and 15.33 billion. Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan explains this in "The Age of the Universe" which is easy to find in PDF
