I am wondering if the story of adam and eve is true doesnt that mean that somehow we are all related ?

Question

How does that work?

Answer 1

Not only are we all related because of Adam and Eve, we're all inbred again because of Noah and his ark (since he only brought his sons, their wives, and his own wife). There are undoubtedly several cases of cousins doing the deed after the flood and in the land of Nod before that.

DNA research follow-up: Our genes are 99% identical to chipanzees in terms of what genes we have. In terms of genetic variation AMONG HUMANS, we are far more different than that. (This isn't about what genes we have, but what ALLELES we have). See below:
http://www.anapsid.org/cnd/diffdx/geneticvariance.html
All told, humans only share about 96% of their DNA.

EDIT: To clarify, I don't believe in either Noah's flood or Adam and Eve as literal translations.

Answer 2

The story of Adam and Eve is just that, a story. If the whole of the human race came from two people, which we will assume were of the same race, then someone was reproducing with their mother. And it also does not explain why there are races of human. So, you cant even get beyond Genesis without experiencing the hypocrisy of religion.

We are indeed related. Humans shared a common ancestor.

Answer 3

Geneticists have traced the human genome back to a single African female about 200,000 years ago. So, yes, we are all related.

You could call that lady, Eve, and perhaps the story of the first Matriarch was handed down by primitive mankind for 200,000 years - who knows?

But to say we are all descendants of Noah means you have to believe in the Biblical flood, or rather, believe it was worldwide. That is a hard one for anyone with half a brain.

Firstly, there is not a shred of geologic evidence for a global flood – lots of local floods in the last 10,000 years (which would be understandable with a world coming out of an ice age), but nothing that covered the whole world. And if Noah was only 4000 or so years ago, the evidence would be so great that someone just starting Geology 101 would have no trouble with it.

Also, it was nice as a kid to think that Noah got a pair of Giraffes, elephants, lions and so on, into his ark. However, we know nowadays that there are 10,000 species all over the world that would need to be saved from a global flood.

The question is “how did Noah nip all over the world picking up these species?” – a Jaguar and Sloth in South America, a Kangeroo in Australia, a Kiwi bird in New Zealand ( a flightless bird, like dozens of other flightless bird species that have been in New Zealand for millions of years). And if that isn’t daft enough, how did he squash those thousands of species into an ark, the size of which was pretty specifically given in the Bible.

Come on folks. You are brighter than that. If there is any reality in the Noah story, it was a local flood (nobody knew about the wider world back then, anyway). Noah was a simple farmer who saw the flood coming and built a boat to save his stock and his family (you could still call it God given knowledge). The story built out of that, and even in the Bible you later start encountering tribes that had nothing to do with Noah’s line – where the heck did they come from?

The most dangerous thing in this world is believing in old testaments literally, word for word. That is why we have Islamic suicide bombers – their Bible, like our Bible, tells them that God commanded them to kill non-believers, just as Jews and Christians have killed non-believers in their history.

That is scary stuff.

Answer 4

In the interests of scholarship and intelligence, let me suggest that you go read a couple of really fun classics:

Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn, and

The Axemaker's Gift, by James Burke & Robert Ornstein.

These are both very readable and enjoyable, especially Ishmael (which has a couple of awesome, very popular sequels out there). These are both easy to get at amazon.com. Anyway, these will give you a better take on things than wondering if there really were an "Adam and Eve".

Enjoy!

Answer 5

Since this is in the science portion and not religion, I feel justified in saying that the concept of Adam and Eve has no scientific basis. We are all related however and share common ancestors since we are but one species.

Answer 6

Regarding the first question:
This topic can be a sensitive one, the answer is: It depends on who you ask. The answer is no if you ask someone who has a different religion, or no religion at all, or maybe even a scientist, since they typically only believe what can be proven (but not all of them).
I remember reading a list of 10 Creationist Theories. The first 9 sounded absolutely ridiculous, and then the last one was Adam and Eve.

Answer 7

If Adam and Eve had children and they all had children and they all had children all of them would be related so technically we all are related very distantly. And, relative of mine, (hehe) humans are all 99.9% alike and that is another way we are all related.

Answer 8

Whether the story is true or not we are all related, most just don't act like it

Answer 9

We are all descendents of Noah and Adam and Eve. I guess that makes you my sister. Pass the potatoes.

Answer 10

As written in Genesis, and traditionally interpreted, yes; we all have those common ancestors

DNA research note: Our genes are over 99% identical, even to monkeys.