and they had kids and their kids reproduced and so on, would the human race eventually die out?
2007-02-20 12:21:40 · 13 answers · asked by lookingforanswersandquestions 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i am an atheist who wants other atheists opinions on this question. i know that atheists do not believe in the whole adam and eve story, but christians believe it. it's a what if question. ppl think that two ppl whose offspring keep breeding will continue on being fine, i disagree, i just want opinions. thanks
2007-02-20 12:42:22 · update #1
In genetics, there is a concept called the 50/500 principle. It's not a hard, fast rule but it basically states that it takes fifty breeding pairs in order to have a species survive 500 generations.
One breeding pair would have literally collapsed within a handful of generations.
2007-02-20 12:25:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Are you an atheist, or are you asking atheists?
If you are asking atheists, that is just silly... atheists do not believe in the adam and eve story. Most are quite logical and evolution at this point makes the most sense. So, no adam, no eve, not from noah, etc.
If you are an atheist and you are trying to "swallow this story", or "stir the pot" in the spirituality section so to speak, then the only responce for that is that God made sure it did not happen, or something like that... leaps of faith are necessary to be a literalist with any religion... be it Christianity, Muslim, Judaism, Buddhism, etc. ... this is one of those leaps of faith moments as anyone who has managed to make it through grade 5 knows what will occur with generations of inbreeding...
2007-02-20 20:37:36 · answer #2 · answered by dedum 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, why do you appeal to atheist to help you out? They can't help you out because they don't believe in God to begin with.Moving along, who says the earth started out with Adam and Eve? If people would simply take the time to research the etymology of words and phrases used in biblical language they would come to know that Adam (the first "man"-research it) was the first "man" to receive the "nephesh" or "soul" and was designed to live forever because of it. Humanity as we know it will end at the time God has appointed it to end, and after all the smoke has cleared and His enemies are dealt with, all things will become new- neverto be as they once were. This includes what will have been the old humanity.
2007-02-20 20:50:25 · answer #3 · answered by 4everamusedw/humanity 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah the offspring would be inbred and would suffer from genetic defects and the species would die out within a few generations. But christians will just refute that by saying that god made it so that didn't happen.
2007-02-20 20:25:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the number of genetic defects you have to start with, but we certainly wouldn't have the variation we do today. For people who don't believe evolution happens at all, they believe evolution happens pretty rapidly.
2007-02-20 20:26:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The world didn't start off with Adam and Eve.
Abiogenesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis
Evolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
2007-02-20 20:28:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, one day we are all going to die. I believe when there is just evil in the world then GOD will destroy his world again and everybody will either go to hell or paradise and pay the price whatever you have done in your life (Good or Bad) Good=paradie, Bad=hell!
2007-02-20 20:37:17 · answer #7 · answered by musical_fish1 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope. It does require some pretty severe inbreeding at some point, or some outside people.
2007-02-20 20:25:27 · answer #8 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, they starred in Deliverance and The Hills Have Eyes.
2007-02-20 20:24:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Considering incest would weaken a species' survival rate, yeah probably.
2007-02-20 20:26:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋