Is this evidence of the possibility of Adam and Eve being our common ancestors?

Question

"Studies have shown that people shared a common ancestor who lived in Africa between 50000-20000 yrs ago." The bible's timeline before Christ could still make sense!

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goring: The reason I ask is because I am a North American Indian, Canadian, and our people have our beliefs too. And none of them require scientific proof. I like watching how other races prove and disprove their "Gods". Personally, I believe in the Great Spirit, Creator, and I never question or doubt his existence. I am less than a mere grain of sand on the shores He created.

Answer 1

we all believe what we want to believe.
If you look hard enough, you can find a shred of evidence to support anything.

The issue however is how much evidence you'll need to ignore in order to use this tidbit.

Answer 2

The studies you quotes are only speculations. Subject to disbelief.
There has been writings that dated before the Biblical flood of Noah's days which indicated that there were some kings living 50,000 years ago.Such writer was very good at exagerating in the same way we have such writer to day also. we cannot believe everything we hear or see without positive proofs.
We can state with out proof that all Human kind had original parents.
As fas as evidence of humans that have died long ago we are unable to find remains of bones beyond 5000 years of human existance.
So to find a trace of the original Human parents would be an impossibility. Why do you want to know?

Answer 3

Since you have put Adam and Eve into the equation then there studies are all wrong. I don't know what the deal was in the time before Genesis 1 . But after genesis 1 it is written that God created mankind (ethnos or races) 2 days before Adam and Eve. The time before Genesis not withstanding, the time from Genesis 1 until now has been only 6000 years +/-. So the bible can not be used to bolster their studies.
Reading Genesis with understanding would help out your musings .

Answer 4

it is in all risk a query extra functional suitable for the religion and spirituality board, yet i'm going to provide it a try. Evolutionary concept does not say something approximately any faith, no longer to point how Adam and Eve in high-quality condition into the thought. yet once you're no longer a creationist or biblical literalist, there is the thought Adam and Eve have been the 1st interior the genus Homo that God bestowed the powers of thought, speech, and understanding to, an thought that may on no account come near to being investigated as extremely actuality or no longer (a minimum of, no longer with our present day technologies). So i assume it extremely is a hypothesis (no longer likely on the point of an thought, however), in basic terms very no longer hassle-free for any factor to grant evidence for. of direction, creationists and strict literalists could have none of it, by way of fact evolution is in basic terms "undesirable technological wisdom", or some sort of trick introduced approximately with the help of an evil atheist to show that God does not exist, or it is "in basic terms an thought, and isn't any longer a actuality".

Answer 5

It does not mean that there were only two people on the planet though. Mitochondrial Eve (as this character has been dubbed) was part of a much larger community of her peers.

This is only our most recent common maternal ancestor, there are more common ancestors going all the way back to when life first started about 3.5 billion years ago.

The biblical timeline does not make any sense in a scientific examination of it.

Answer 6

The idea that Adam and EVE were the first and only ancestors of all humanity is simply not possible. The story of them in the Bible is meant to be allegorical, and not to be taken as historical fact. A gene pool of only two persons would die out within a very short time, and doesn't come close to explaining all the different races and ethnic groups living today.

Answer 7

How many times will xians change the age of the earth to make a time-line?

I think you should look up the meaning of the phrase "common ancestor" as well.

From that artical
"As our ancestors migrated out of Africa into the rest of the world, small changes called mutations occurred in their DNA"
Wouldn't that support evolution more than the Adam and Eve myth?

Answer 8

I do believe that scripture is very clear that before God formed Adam and Eve that mankind which would imply all the races were created (Genesis 1:27,28) and that creation occurs on the 6th.day..Notice too that they are all created at one time....then afterward in Genesis 2:5 notice that there is not a man to "till the ground" and also this particular man Adam is created to fellowship with God as a keeper of the garden he planted "eastward in Eden"....notice too that Adam and Eve were not formed at the same time!...
Furthermore, I believe our Heavenly Father is beyond mankind's thinking and idea of science in that he does things in order without confusion , thus it would be genetically impossible for an oriental child to be born naturally of parents who themselves are not oriental!

Answer 9

no because other races were already existing at the time of adam and eve, like the land of Goshen where Cain went after he killed Able. There was only adam, evem the two kids and no mention of any offspring growing up and leaving and breeding enough to start another country by the time can and able grew up. also, it states Eve bore her many sons and daughters after able died and cain left.

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Answer 10

I have seen this before. Let us say that we all came from a common ancestor. Let us say her name was Eve.

The unanswered question is where did Eve come from? Was she created from Adam's rib or did she evolve from a different species?

You see, the existence of one common ancestor does not answer the question.

Answer 11

We all do likely have common ancestors. Not just human ancestors, we also have common ancestors with all life on earth: fish, lizards, insects, plants, bacteria.

You can call them Adam and Eve if you like, it makes no difference.

The first life probably reproduced asexually, you could call it Adam. Sexual life forms evolved from asexual forms, so you could say that Eve developed from Adam.