Logically looking at life and the theory of the single cell evolutionizing, animals past and present, wouldn't a persons mind have to be pretty shallow to believe in the Adam and Eve theory?
2006-08-08 09:00:58 · 12 answers · asked by will2succeed 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Yup, it's illogical and yup a person's mind must be pretty shallow. We know from studies of populations of animals that if there isn't more than one set of mating pairs that incest will cause a lot of genetic problems like disease among other things. The first humans probably had more than one female and one male. I couldn't tell you the exact population, but it has to be more than 2.
2006-08-08 09:42:18 · answer #1 · answered by Silver Snake 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Religion and science are different spheres. It takes a shallow mind to blend and confuse them.
The story in Geneisis 1-3 is a creation myth: a form of literature that was never intended to be taken literally. It is obvious that the account in Genesis 1-3 was not written by an eye witness. In fact the most conservative opinion is that it was written by Moses under inspiration @1400 BC.
We are very familiar today with the literary form of the creation myth. It is found in vitually every culture and it is never a simple dispassionate history. It is only a naive fundamentalism that imposes the need for a crassly literal interpretation of all texts. Real human literature began as allegory. The recording of the mere facts of history was an idea that took a long time to develop and it has only been perfected in the last 2 or 3 centuries.
There is an allegorical meaning for all the days and occurences in Genesis 1-3. The Magistierum has insisted that there is real history there, but it has wisely left the exact content of that history as a mostly open question.
God could just as easily have made Eve from Adam in an evolutionary Eden as in a mythical one. In the Catholic view the creation of the human soul in Adam is re-enacted in the womb with every new conception. Eden happens over again for each of us without the patrimony of sanctyfying grace and the preternatural gifts lost by Adam and Eve. IMHO that is the hardest thing to grasp.
Art Sippo
2006-08-08 16:27:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
anybody with more than a couple of active brain cells know that Adam and Eve weren't the first man and woman, although they may have been the first Chimpanzees. Science fact has to come before religious myth.
2006-08-08 21:13:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is'nt it pretty shallow that all these different types of people, animals and plants all came from a single cell. Rocks, water, space, gravity, planets all results of a big bang...??? Conscience, emotions, feelings all evolution. And a book that explains all of it, predicts the future and challenges you to believe in something more than yourself - pure fiction. Enjoy your box...
2006-08-08 16:13:51 · answer #4 · answered by isanynameavialable 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible books are written in codes! What we do know is this; we are all related! Human species ,created by an absolute God! All people in this planet have a creation story, and the root of all them stories is that we were created by God ,or a Spirit ,or many Gods, there is always a point of starting and is always Spiritual!
2006-08-08 17:22:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
define ...shallow! one cannot look at life by reading/reciting words in books. true, there are facts that are absolute...but even at ..."best case scenario"...there are NO reports made by a 1st hand witness/observer to an adam and eve/garden of eden. (although it is written..sic...that the eden in the bible is in truth, the 2nd eden)
2006-08-08 20:01:13 · answer #6 · answered by coach 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, many people are just brought up on it and will follow their faith "blindly" and unquestionably. Can't really knock them down for believing in something so strongly, a lot of people don't have that much faith in their own family.
2006-08-08 16:37:36 · answer #7 · answered by Gray Wanderer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, not to mention all the inbreeding would have caused the human race to die out millenia ago.
2006-08-08 16:41:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah, but imagine the great sex they would have to have to make all those babies! I wouldn't want to have all those babies ouch! but humans wrote the bible so it has to be illogical. Only MOTHER nature knows the truth of it.
2006-08-08 21:02:41 · answer #9 · answered by mtlmnc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More brainwashed than shallow I think.
2006-08-08 17:43:15 · answer #10 · answered by justtravellingthrewtime 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋