Do Christians ACTUALLY believe we all 3 billion of us came from Adam and Eve? Is that ignorance hereditary?

Answer 1

It's incest

Answer 2

Three billion? You should buy a new encyclopedia, we're on 6 billion now.

I'm a Christian and I don't believe the literal bible creation myth. I count algae and monkeys amongst my ancestors :).

But incidentally, many mainstream scientists (who wouldn't dream of supporting creationism or Adam and Eve myths) believe we are decended from a very small group of humans - a few thousand individuals. So there is nothing ignorant or foolish about the billions being descended from a small number.

Try to get your own facts straight before you go throwing around words like "ignorance".

Answer 3

I suggest you actually read the Bible before you start throwing the word "ignorance" around. Besides,it's very rude to call anyone's religious beliefs ignorance. Since none of us were around with the first humans, I trust the Bible,which by the way,does not say all manking descended from Adam and Eve. In Genesis when Cain slew Abel he went to other towns-da,obviously other people were there,but the Bible just does not go into detail on that matter.

Answer 4

I believe in evolution and I can say that it is quite possible for 6 billion people to stem from one cell line. However, not Adam and Eve though. Christians believe that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago, despite scientific evidence to the contrary which isn't enough time for the development of 6 bn people.

We all must have come from one source, like the bible says, since evolution is a game of chance and therefore it is highly unlikely that more than one species billions of years ago slowly evolved into something resembling man.

Incidentally, you can believe in evolution and still believe in the existence of God, not necessary the god that Christians and Muslims believe in but in the possibility that there might be a higher intelligence in this universe that got the ball rolling and then sat back and watched nature take its course.

Christians are quick to point out the faultlines in evolution and in the big bang theory because it doesn't fit into the world mentioned by the bible. The same people who point out these faults are not experts in the field. They too are spoon fed this information by creationists.

Evolutionists, however, are not as myopic, we do not categorically believe that we descended from apes, we are, however, willing to accept that that given our knowlege of genetics and mutations (something that Christains cannot deny) and the fact that our chromosone structure is more than 90% similar to members of the primate species Darwins theory is perfectly plausible! Sure, it is not foolproof, something things still ellude us but evolutionism hasn't been around for long and at our current rate of understanding the natural world, many of these mysteries that have remained hidden may indeed soon reveal themselves. Whether people chose to believe them is another matter all together. But why should evolution matter anyway to us! It doesn't. It won't have any impact whatsoever on our daily lives. So I say let people believe what they want to believe. If the bible is wrong, so what! The important thing is to have respect for each other's faith - yes, evolution is a faith, too.


P.S. Hmm... a slug. We also come from one cell! That is quite a hard idea to get our heads around. How can a 6ft tall, thinking human being stem from one tiny, microscopic measly cell. Scientists do understand this process though. So it is not hard to extend this line of thinking and imagine ourselves originating from something like a slug 5 billion years ago. We do share many of the same chromosones. Sure the idea is repulsive and offends our notion that we are created in Gods image but are just one cog in Natures wheel but it doesn't mean that it didn't happen and I have a much easier time trying to believe that we came from somewhere, even if it is something as disgusting as a slug than magically appearing from thin air 6,000 years ago at the express command of the almighty!

Answer 5

there's more than 6 billion now. And yeah, they really do believe that. Ignorance isn't hereditary, but passed on by the parents through teaching (nurture) rather than DNA (nature)

Answer 6

Start doing some of your own genealogy research and go back a few centuries, you will start seeing intermarriages, and same ancestors, add that to if you had access to more records, did you really think the world began with 4 apes, that evolutionized? Oh my perhaps ignorance is hereditary in SOMEBODYS case.

Answer 7

im afraid u have your statistics wrong. there are approsimately 6 billion people in the world and yes chistians believe that we all cam from adam and eve. im not going to argue with u b/c u sound like an ignorant ape to begin with

Answer 8

You do the math. Start with a man and a woman. Assume 3-4 children per couple with at least one being a female. These children reach reproductive age about every 15 years. Multiply that by about 10,000 years. Yeah, it's possible.

Answer 9

Actually, Christians believe that the 3 billion of us came from our parents.

Even if you believe in evolution, you have to believe that all 3 million of us have a common blood line. Unless you believe that several thousand different species of pre-homo sapiens all gave birth to off spring that just happened to share the same mutation that we call homo sapiens.

Answer 10

There are over 6 billion of us and yes, we Christian do actually believe that -- it makes much more since than believing that we came all came from just two ameoba.

Answer 11

First of all, asshole, there is approximatly 6.3 billion people according to U.S.S.B. It is not ignorance, it is belief. Why don't you tell me how much you believe all your spoon-fed bullshit of how we came from monkeys and tell me if that is ignorance or heredity...or stupidity to believe the facts of scientists who can't even tell you where the gasses that created the big bang came from. If this shitty ball of gasses created the big bang, what created the gasses