Adam and Eve

Originally posted by Nichole
Even if Adam and Eve were brother and sister, any children that came from them, and their children's children, would only have been related very, very distantly-not close enough to cause any harm, as can happen with incest.

I don't believe the Adam and Eve story, I believe we came evolved from apes, as this is what science has managed to prove.

Yes, we and Apes have a lot in common, not only physically and mentally, but genetically as well.

Christians, however will be quick to argue, "well..that's just a coincidense. God wanted people to have a best freind in the animal kingdom.....but we chose dogs instead. that's the problem ! Monkeys were meant to be man's best freind, not dogs ! "

wait....how are brother and sister not closely related? that makes no sense

Adam and Eve were considered like gods without sin,.......so did gods sin and condemn the world?? They were perfect.

Originally posted by debbiejo
Adam and Eve were considered like gods without sin,.......so did gods sin and condemn the world?? They were perfect.

Lol, then how could partaking of the fruit of the tree make them like the Gods knowing good from evil? They were not considered like Gods, they also were imperfect in that they did not have the knowledge that a God would.

As for condemning the world, this is debatable in that they "condemned" the world.

It was their "sin" that made Eve capable of bearing children:

Genesis 3:16, 20
16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;

20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Eve was not named Eve until after they were punished. Why? Because until that point Eve was not "the mother of all living." Also:

Genesis 4:1
1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

Prior to this there is no direct mention of reproduction. It is possible that they were unable, or perhaps more accurately they were unaware of sexual relations. It is possible that we never would have existed without their "sin", from a Biblical perspective. So, without their "sin" there may not have been a "world" to condemn.

Originally posted by allofyousuckkk
To the people who say they don't believe in Evolution because it makes no sense and goes against the bible:

Hypothetically two people (Adam and Eve) (let's say they're albino, because you can only go up from there) populate the whole world. From them spawn the blacks, asian, indian etc.

So, wouldn't the "albino" adam and eve had to evolve (i say this in a way not implying millions of years, much less so that just small things changed such as skin color and features) to become different?

Also, wouldn't we all have the same blood type?

Wouldn't we all be related and hereditary illness be illogical?

Brother+Sister+Sex= Disfigured child
Explain this to me^

The Bible isn't always meant to be taken literally...

Yep, cause the story is a MYTH....

Originally posted by Nellinator
The other people were not in the Garden by my understanding. You can see this when Cain is sent into the land of 'Nod' (which means wandering )and is able to found an entire city. Founding an entire city can not be done with just a single generation of people. However, I hold that we are all descended from Noah as he was the only one to survive the flood. However, there was three seperate gene pools upon arriving which is extremely interesting when considering there are three major people groups in the world (Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro).

So they didn't get a chance to choose to eat the forbidden fruit.... and they still ended up tainted by the actions of Adam and Eve?

(I'm bumping this because I'd like to talk about it but don't want to make a new thread)

When Isaid brother+sister, i meant when Adam and Eve eventually had kids, why weren't their grandchildren deformed?(unless the "god" from South Park resmbles god, and that is what man originally lookedl ike, and now we are deformed and look like we do)(kinda like the twilight zone episode "the eye of the beholder"