Christians, what picture do you have in your mind of Adam & Eve?

Question

Now be honest: when you picture Adam & Eve in your mind, are they white people with blond or light brown hair? Are they your own race at all? How do you picture them?

I ask this because someone just answered another question about evolution, with an explanation they claimed allowed both the bible story AND evolution to be true (which frankly is impossible)...in her version we all still came from Adam & Eve, it just happened a long time ago. Yet there is conclusive scientific evidence that all humans can trace their ancestry through DNA back to early humans that came out of middle Africa, and that those early humans were...BLACK. Yes, black. All us white folks descended from Africans with dark skin.
But somehow I got the idea that many if not all US christians still think Adam & Eve were white. Do you?

For those who asked for reference on the science: there are literally hundreds. Go search either Yahoo or Google for "mitochondrial DNA first humans" and you'll find much interesting reading.

BadBuddha: the differences between the bible story of creation and the scientific explanation for the beginning of the earth and life are so vastly different that they cannot possibly BOTH be true. They could both be false, though the evidence supports the science :) And yes, I understand that the bible story is a creation myth -- but that doesn't make it true...

Answer 1

I see two ape like sapians with a severe allegy towards apples.

Answer 2

>> bible story AND evolution to be true (which frankly is impossible) <<

Really?

Maybe you should look up the words:

Metaphor

or..

Mythology

Once you do that we can talk about what is 'impossible'.

My response:

I'm not sure you'll read this but *you* are the one that equated Adam and Eve and evolution. They are not the same. They do not try to explain the same things.

The story of Adam and Eve is about man coming forth into the realm of time. Into the dual nature of the universe. It is about humanity leaving the dreamlike place where we did not know the difference between male and female, God and human, good or evil.

To move out into the world, to gather knowledge, we had to leave the Garden. This is the shift in consciousness from the consciousness of identity to the consciousness of participation. So, it is a story explaining one aspect of the ontogenesis of the psyche.

See?

You trying to impose evolution on this mythological story makes no sense. In your defense, this is the argument as defined by many Christians, but you should be able to see beyond that.

Answer 3

I don't doubt that the garden of eden may have been in africa. But, with all due respect, just because blacks live in africa today it doesn't follow that adam and eve were black 6,000 years ago. Don't forget Christians believe there was a world wide flood that wiped out everyone in the world but 8 people about 4,000 years ago and that ark landed somewhere around mesopotamia in the area of modern iraq and turkey. That's where the new world started. Personally, I believe that adam and eve were brown people. That would have allowed for enough genetic variability to have white people and black people. If adam and eve were white, it's doubtful that you would have ever had brown and black people. If they were black it's doubtful that you would ever have had brown and white people. Check out the article in the link.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/AnswersBook/races18.asp

Answer 4

Adam and Eve could have been bald for all we knew. We have no proof of what any one looked like back in the bible days. Personally, I don't think they look like any particular race. They may be either or. I have seen most bible story picture books illistrating Adam and Eve as caucasion people while Eve has long, brown hair and Adam had regular, shaggy brown hair, but I don't know if I agree with this or not.

Answer 5

No, actually they are slightly hunched-backed with arthritis and tanned or a slightly higher amount of melanoma than a Caucasian person would have. Their hair is dark, thick and course... no length pictured consistently,. Their facial bone structure is thick and relatively flat with a long chin bone. The mandibular is more rectangular than oval. Okay, so my picture of Adam and Eve is more along the lines of the Neanderthal of Mideast descent, but there it is. I don't really have a picture of Adam and Eve specifically... only that they were similar to early man/woman findings in their region. Unfortunately God did not give us a clear description of them... so we have to wing it.

Answer 6

I have no idea what color Adam and Eve were. And how do you know that God didn't use the same strand of DNA to evolve other people around the world while Adam and Eve were in the Garden?

Answer 7

There was a movie once called The Bible. I liked the casting for Adam and Eve. They were both very beautiful. And, no one knows what skin color they were, let's not be silly! What does it matter!

Answer 8

If you look up the definitions for Adam in the Hebrew dictionary you will find that one of these definitions say the Adam means ruddy completion. That means that this person shows red in the face. He can blush. Black people cannot blush.><>

Answer 9

WellTraveledProg,
I suppose that whatever picture I have in my mind about how they looked is pretty impossible to you. So I'll keep it to myself.

I think that one thing I can tell you is; I don't put much weight on that mental image. Besides, the picture is never the same. I don't have a vivid mental image of either one of them.

I would like to know your source for your conclusive scientific evidence. Do you have it on a site?

Answer 10

Caucasions aren't white either.
Their Light Brown.
I Believe Adam and Eve were Jewish.

Answer 11

This is just another question that confuses the heck out of us heathens. It just plumb makes NO sense. Maybe they were lighter brown like me, since supposedly they came from the Euphrates area right? Like Egyptians? Bah... who knows?