Are humans the products of incest?

Question

We all came from Adam and Eve right? And their children reproduced with their own siblings right? So doesn't that make us products of incest?

Answer 1

If you belive in Myths and Fairytales yes ... oh and don't forget to masterbate to me!

Answer 2

No, we are not products of incest. If you remember the story right, God plucked the rib from Adam to make Eve; so theoretically Eve is a part of Adam. You cannot have incest with yourself.

Now because Adam and Eve only had only boys, there is a lot of the story that was left out. Maybe God did the same thing with his sons. Otherwise that would mean that Eve would be the only woman to procreate.

Answer 3

Many people immediately reject the conclusion that Adam and Eve's sons and daughters married each other by appealing to the law against brother-sister intermarriage. Some say that you cannot marry your relation. Actually, if you don't marry your relation, you don't marry a human! A wife is related to her husband even before they marry because all people are descendants of Adam and Eve — all are of "one blood." The law forbidding marriage between close relatives was not given until the time of Moses (Leviticus 18-20). Provided marriage was one man to one woman for life (based on Genesis 1 and 2), there was no disobedience to God's law originally when close relatives (even brothers and sisters) married each other.

Remember that Abraham married his half-sister (Genesis 20:12). God blessed this union to produce the Hebrew people through Isaac and Jacob. It was not until some 400 years later that God gave Moses laws that forbade such marriages.

Answer 4

My theory is that if Adam and Eve were perfect, or approaching perfection, then repeated layers of incest caused horrible mutilations. That would certainly explain a lot of things.

Answer 5

One would think so at first, but the Bible isn't clear. For instance, when Cain is banished for killing Abel, he is afraid that other people will kill him. Who are these other people? He goes far away, but to another city that is heavily populated. Obviously Adam and Eve didnt' live long enough to produce children who produced enough offspring to populate cities that were far off. At least they didnt' live long enough at the point when Cain killed Abel. Genesis says God created Adam and cuz he was lonely Eve. It doesn't say he stopped there.

Answer 6

So the question now should be, was there ever just an Adam and an Eve? And is there actually a god? Contradictions, contradictions. That's what is in the all-time best seller book called the Bible. LOLZ This always cracks me up.

Answer 7

You answer yourself in that question YES we can be products of incest since one cannot prove that in those days there was only A & E as humans, surely there was others. hence not all of us are products of incest.

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

At least 1 woman from africa anyway.

Answer 10

http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/biology/news/marth/