If Adam and Eve started our species (serious question)?

Question

this isn't a joke or anything, just a theory.

if Adam and Eve started our species, then that means we are descendants of them, they are everyone's great great great great...grandparents.
so in this, does this mean that we are all inbreds?
and could the fact that actual inbred children are born with birth defects disprove creationism?
in other words, if Adam and Eve were truly our ancestors, wouldn't we all be born with birth defects?

Answer 1

the bible does not say that adam and eve were everyone's ancestors. It just says that they were the first two humans. God could very easily have made many other humans afterwards. The bible does not specify. Also, read the book of numbers in the old testament, that will tell you who is who's ancestors, relation etc.

I had wondered the same question at one point...

Answer 2

I am absolutely not condoning incest here, but scientific research has proven that first cousins only have a minuscule higher chance of having a child with birth defects than an unrelated couple does. So my answer is no, if Adam and Eve were our ancestors we WOULD NOT all be born with birth defects. Many birth defects have nothing to do w/ parental fault. They are simply random mistakes that occur in the chromosomes some time during or after conception. Some of these random 'mistakes' actually end up working to the benefit of a species by introducing a trait that aids in their survival, such as the genetic marker that is keeping many people obese these days. This was once an asset to survive during periods of famine.

Answer 3

no because applicative errors did not occur so close to original creation. They lived to be 900 years old in the beginning then God dropped their years to 120. It took thousands of years before "in-breeding" defects would become a problem. By then there were enough very diverse and very distant relations that it wouldn't affect it.
those "other people" that the above person mentions are not other original people like Adam and Eve - they were the descendants of Adam and Eve's other children, who had children, who had children etc. They did not take near the time to populate the earth as is normal for our day for two reasons - they had many many children per woman and they started very, very young. God could not have made "other humans" that were not from the original first two - what if the others had never sinned - had never disobeyed God? Jesus would not have needed to die for them. But there is no place in Scripture that even vaguely supports this view. In fact John 3:16 says that God so loved THE WORLD that He gave His Son - which would include every human. They would be like a whole seperate kind of species from the humans of Adam's line. But there is only ONE mankind and they are ALL descended from Adam. So ALL needed One Savior.

Answer 4

Genesis 4:17 says, "Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch." Who was his wife? It is implied in the biblical text that Cain married one of his sisters. Several facts lead us to this conclusion.
First, it is clear that Adam and Eve had a number of children. Genesis 5:4 says, "After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters." Since Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, and since God had commanded them (and their descendants) to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28), it seems reasonable to conclude that Cain married one of his many sisters. It is also possible that he married a niece or even a grandniece.
One must keep in mind that in the early years of the human race there were no genetic defects that had yet developed as a result of the fall of man. By the time of Abraham, God had not yet declared this kind of marriage to be contrary to His will (see Genesis 20:12). Laws governing incest apparently did not become enacted until the time of Moses (Lev 18:7-17; 20:11,12,14,17,20,21). Hence, there was no prohibition regarding marrying a sister (or niece or grandniece) in the days of Cain.
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Answer 5

No, when God created races, he created the ability to cleanse ones own race by introducing new DNA from another race into the mix, that is when you have a mixed marriage. Prejudism makes it seem wrong to marry outside of ones own race, but the genes and DNA are good. At first it was OK to marry ones own family member, but then after thousands of years, the blood became corrupt and so did men (petaphiles in ones own family) and so you had to marry outside of your own family or race.

Answer 6

Ignoring all the "ifs", and dragging in a bit of science. Inbreeding does not guarantee birth defects, just makes them more likely.

Answer 7

birth defects are caused if its the immediate family or close, even if we all come from adam and eve, we're still way too different to cause the birth defects

Answer 8

Just shut up with your ideas and science you! Look! It says in the Bible:

Don't let anyone lead you astray with empty philosophy and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the evil powers of this world. Colossians 2:8.

So I'm not gonna think about it and you can't make me!
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Answer 9

Adam was created first and then God created Eve, they had children , God also created other people. God created other races and they came from the different parts of the world that God created!

Answer 10

yes.

and we aren't.

even thebible notes that Cain, at a time when he is theoretically only one of three humans alive, asks god what will happen to him when he runs into other PEOPLE.

Thus, Adam and Eve may be (literally or figuratively) the originators of the Hebrews, but even those early people knew of other humans.