If Adam and Eve populated the entire planet, how did we get such a diversity in our DNA?

Question

Let's say that all humans can be traced to the common ancestors of Adam and Eve of Eden. To keep this from getting too technical, let's just say this leaves us with a limited set of DNA. However, we see many more options and DNA sequences in the human race today than what could have been present in only two people.

How did that happen? How did we get more DNA than just what Adam and Eve provided?

So it sounds like it must have been evolution of DNA, either by God or nature.

Answer 1

Magic happened.

Answer 2

You said "...lets say all humans can be traced to the common ancestor...".
Well, all humans "have been traced to a common ancestor", a fully developed human female.
See the article in "Newsweek" (01/11/1988) entitled "The Search for Adam and Eve". Two researchers at the University of California-Berkeley tested mitochondrial DNA from 147 different women from all races around the world. They mapped out a family history linking all humans back to a single female. The researchers were Alan Wilson and Mark Stoneking. This scientific discovery turned paleontology upside down. Most people seem to have forgotten this dramatic finding. And, if you did not already know, U-Cal-Berkeley, is not a creationist school.
So, the bottom line here is-that "all humans", black, white, red, yellow and otherwise, all came from one human mother. We did not evolve from different animals as was previously thought.

Answer 3

Because the DNA is so complex that sci today cant figure it completly out and we dont have the complete dna anymore we are mising 10 hellixes of it the part of the dna they call junk dna wich we can activate thru difrent means,, the diversity of the dna is because adam an eva and generacions after them had an even more complex dna (the 12 helix dna) then we have no, humans today are less then the where befor (one more reason why there is no evolution)

Answer 4

Peace! Genesis a million-11 is a fantasy picked up by ability of Jewish writers after the exile.they're parables meant to tutor theological truths. The Catholic Church would not have an good place on no rely if extremely some existence varieties stepped forward over the process time. although, it says that, in the event that they did advance then they did so decrease than the impetus and training of God, and their fantastic creation would desire to be ascribed to him. If the evolution thought finally wins out, some differences in Church doctrine such unique sin would would desire to get replaced. it incredibly is my own opinion nevertheless. i'm no longer able to speak for the Church on that concern.

Answer 5

When Kaine slew Able he went to the land of Nod and took a wife remember? this wife wasn't eve.
Lilith was the First wife of Adam made of earth as adam, he wouldn't accept their equality, so she booked it from eden, believed to have taken up aleigon of demons around a lake that I don't remember, then there was a second made from earth as Adam but he was terrified for witnessing the process and wouldn't go near her, so she was banished I don't know what was supposed to have happened to her after that, and so god told adam to take a nap took a rib and there's the 3 wife. So. Assuming we only have the origional beings that god put to earth that means we have 4 people.- But as there was the Kingdom of nod, and Kains fear of theifs and bandits that might do him harm (and so god marked his forhead to warn off those who would do him harm) This brings to end the Paradox of 1 set of dna making the world (After all eve was adams flesh blood bone and marrow). In short it didn't happen. Because in Gen 1 litterally translated from the origional hebrew it says "a councel of goddesses" made the wonders of the first 7 days including man and woman in gen 2 YHWH or a single god made Adam (and lilith, then the unnamed one) and Eve. So there you go. Bible says Adam and eve were neither the first nor the only. Paradox solved. The differences in people though relate to the climate where the lived and selective breeding according to the desires of the local tribes.

Answer 6

The reason we know we are all the same is we can breed one race with the other with no problems whatsoever.One can breed a tiger and a lion but with great difficulty.A horse and a donkey create a hybid mule incapable of reproducing.But we are so close genetically that we can do that.
Now alot of Adam and Eve's line was eliminated in the flood of Noah.Read Genesis chapter 5 and you'll see the line that remained.So basically it was Noah's 3 sons who repopulated the earth.The Bible says Ham and his line populated Africa. Japheth,Europe and Shem,the Mid-East ans India.From there they spread.The farther up Japheth went the lighter the skin became.Same with Ham getting darker.It appears Shem's line stayed a nice brown.

Answer 7

Analysis of mitochondrial DNA suggests that all humans are decended from the same woman. DNA variation sprung up from there.

Current genetic diversity is not proof against the concept of a single couple giving rise to the world's diverse population.

But it is not possible that that amount of diversity sprung up in only 6,000 years.

Answer 8

I have always attributed this to the Tower of Babel, when God separated all peoples and gave them different languages, and then assume, different races. However, I still don't quite understand the Tower of Babel story in full, just yet. Have you ever noticed that all continents seem to fit together like a puzzle, especially if you look at the shelves in the oceans. I imagine that it was quite a spectacular event when he separated the peoples.

Answer 9

well your going to have to ask a biologist who specializes in human DNA because even they believe that humanity has a common ancestor.

Mitochondrial Eve (mt-mrca) is the name given by researchers to the woman who is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) for all living humans. Passed down from mothers to offsprings over more than a hundred thousand years, her mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is now found in all living humans; Every mtDNA in every living person is derived from hers. Mitochondrial Eve is the female counterpart of the Y-chromosomal Adam, the patrilineal most recent common ancestor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

Answer 10

pretty amazing isn't it!

It is true that DNA actually changes over time from generation to generation. This is a scientific fact. The rate of change in the past is what can never be known.
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Answer 11

I'm an atheist but check this out we are all descended from a single person- Just that's where human's started. Mitochondrial eve is the coolest!