Sentence:  Such efforts almost always find themselves compelled to ask whether <WSD>Adam</WSD> was created capable of growing old and then older and then still older , in short , whether Adam 's life was intended to be part of the process of time . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race