All of us being related because of Adam and Eve?

Question

Ok, all of us came from Adam and Eve, and that would mean that we are all cousins, but two cousins having children, and their children are quite retarded. Aren't we all supposed to be dribbling and wearing pampus if everyone is having children with their own cousins?

Answer 1

thats actually been proven to be a myth and the instances of birth defects from even first cousins isnt much if any higher than the normal rate ...

Answer 2

Even if evolution were true, we would still have a common ancestor. the single-celled organism, and would be facing the same question of genetics and heredity.

Adam and Eve were perfect specimens - healthy, strong, beautiful. Only after their disobedience did creation - and our DNA- become corrupt.

It wasn't until later in history that God prohibited mating between close relatives. By this time the gene pool was corrupted to the point where this would cause problems. See "Answers in Genesis - Where did Cain get his wife?"

Answer 3

Did we all come from Adam and Eve? How can people explain when in Genesis, God banished Adam & Eve's son, Cain. Cain left and found another city and married and had children. Where did these other people come from? And where did the other races come from? Did one race evolve into another race? So does that mean that some races are more evolved than another? A question still waiting to be answered.

Answer 4

1551 to Christ and 2007 after Christ we have laws of the land to abide by to decrease the possibility of genetic defect.

Adam said, Eve was bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, so the same would apply to their offsprings, but they were so perfect that even after sin, when they were in the life sustaining earth, they almost lived the 1000 year perfect day of God, where as the times and seasons for plant life is what man bases his time on.
So that 859 years after the flood when people born in the imperfections of sin, with the life span getting shorter and shorter now the the life sustaining earth was lost in the flood.
The people are having giants and dwarfs and hunchbacks, so the incest law of the land must be made and adhered to by people that care about God and have respect to do the best thing possible by him and his earth and his people and their people.
SO PEOPLE ARE OF THE SAME FAMILY FROM ADAM AND EVE FIRST AND FROM NOAH AND HIS FAMILY AFTER THE FLOOD. 1Cor.15:22-28,51-53; Heb.9:27;

Answer 5

According to a research study, there is "no biological reason to discourage cousins from marrying."
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=10429&hint=2

Even if you don't believe in Adam and Eve, science still says we are all cousins.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-09/yu-rc092904.php
http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/1,71298-0.html

Answer 6

I'll let you know what I think of your theory when we get to see you in person.

Since you cannot spell "pampers" maybe you are right ;-p

Actually, genetic defects would not have shown up in the original generation's DNA. it probably would have taken some time for mutations to accumulate. By then, the world's population would have large enough, and diverse enough that close relatives didn't have to marry.

Answer 7

Geneticists have shown that our DNA can be traced back to an "Eve". The idea is that mitochondrial DNA (found in females of species) can be traced back to a single female human ancestor from Africa from about 150,000 years ago. A common ancestor for neanderthals and modern humans can be traced to 500,000 years ago.

Answer 8

Only the followers of the Abrahamic religions believe in Adam and Eve. And considering how they have been behaving, ...

Answer 9

Ok, so, not to start an argument here but whatever one believes
creation or evolution, wouldn't we all be cousins anyway? There had to be a starting point.

Answer 10

I suggest purchasing or renting the documentary titled: The Real Eve Story. It will open your eyes to this folklore in the Bible.