If Adam & Eve were the first humans and they had children till now how do we have different last names?

Answer 1

Last names, surnames, family names... are all rather recent, in the long view of things.
When the population was less, it was less likely for someone to run into someone with the exact same name. People tended to stay near their home village, so if there was a Paul in village A and a Paul in Village Z it didn't matter if they never left their villages.
However, when people started to get a little more mobile and wanting to explore, then descriptive names started to be used. Some places, like in the Scandanavian countries, they recognized them by whose son or daughter you were (Anders' son, Jens' son, etc). Other people by their jobs or where they lived, in the language of the people (Schmidt is german for Smith, other names include Underhill, or Cooper, Bytheway etc).
Even today, with all the different combinations of first and last names, there are actually times when it helps to have a middle name, too! My mother has found that out the hard way when her Doctor took a look at her chart and realized it was a different Norma! (that lady had worse problems than my mother!)

Answer 2

Adam and Eve indulging... the concept!


If Adam and eve did not exist... there would not have been any human beings! The first of the species of human beings the revered Adam and Eve were the first to surface on Mother Earth as human beings. Their direct ancestors being the ape family!

Now Adam and Eve came onto this Earth. They had both to act as a family. Both were son and daughter of God. That made them brother and sister. How come they could have fathered children?

In the initial stages of development of human life... nothing existed which we could have called as society or community. It was a raw savage world. As per the theory of Charles Darwin, "it was the time for survival of the fittest". It was the time to do and die.

Words like ethics and morality did not exist for even words did not exist during those times. The Lipi (written form of communication) was developed at a much later stage in time.

Even a brother and sister relationship did not exist at that time. There were only two human beings who had surfaced on Mother Earth. They had to copulate and produce children. They did not do it intentionally. They never knew anything about it.

It was that it happened. They did it and something was born. At that moment of time they would have been extremely surprised not knowing what to do about it. Eventually they would have realized it was one of them.

They reared that child and with passage of time another child was born. This time it was a female child. As this small family progressed further... this male and female child copulated at the appropriate time. And the whole family started to grow.

Now there were two families. With passage of time many more families came into existence. Until this point of time there was nothing like morality and ethics that played any role. For the sake of their survival and progeny these families kept on multiplying.

This was the only way to keep intruders at bay. They had to protect themselves from the wild beings roaming Mother Earth.

Ever since the Revelations of God came into existence... the human being who had invoked these words of God realized that the system had to be ordered at some stage. And some system of morality and ethics came into being.

As of today... the copulation by the children of Adam and Eve was a sin but at that time it was not a sin for the relationship of brother and sister never existed in those times.

The development of relationships in human life came at a very later the stage. It was only possible when the community would have developed into a massive strength. Population somewhere in thousands would have prompted the wise and the elders of those times to separate out into distinct families.

We need to understand that whatever is truth today may not hold tomorrow. In a scientific developing world the values whether they are ethical, moral or otherwise keep changing.

We also need to understand that during the times of Mahabharata... the battle was fought using swords, horses and elephants. But now the warfare consists of atomic bombs, missiles and chemical warfare. More on adam and eve here- http://www.godrealized.com/dharma_definition.html

Answer 3

The BIble doesn't mention last names for Adam and Eve. The other responders have given good historical information related to beginning of last name designations.

Answer 4

Adam and Eve didn't have last names. People started using last names as distinctions, i.e. Mr. Blacksmith, was a blacksmith. I wonder why we need middle names? More distinctions?

The Bible did say things like Paul of Tarsus. As the world became more populated people ran into more and more people with the same name and needed to clarify who they were talking about. Hence, lots of names.

Answer 5

Adam and Eve were the first humans created, but, they weren't the only ones.

Answer 6

Because over time sons and Daughters who didn't like their parent would change their names or when people wanted to change their past or identies they would change their last names.....i believe it kinda started about in the Early Early Middle ages....I think it's kinda fun but we should all remember that sinse adam and eve are everyones first parents we are all brothers and sisters regardless of race, color, or last name!

Answer 7

Adam and Eve weren't the first humans. It's just a story.

Answer 8

If you believe in Adam and Eve then you shouldn't have a problem with names just imagine them the same..

Answer 9

probably because early humans never really had much of a language, and last names wouldnt be important.

and once we really started to develop languages, last names were either given for the job you had (how some last names came about) or maybe just the group of humans you lived with..

Answer 10

Well, people do change their names.

And wait a minute, what do you think Adam and Eve's last name was, anyway?