Is every one related to each other?

Question

if the first two people where adam and eve then arent we all related

Answer 1

Logically we must be all related, although the concept of an original couple (Adam & Eve) raises some questionable moral issues. If Adam & Eve existed, then the human race must have been spawned through incest as their offspring would have to had sexual relations with a sibling, or even worse, it's own parents!

If there were more than one human couple in existence at the start of humanity then the question is, who gave birth to them? Logically we must come back to 2 original parents for all of humankind which means incestous relationships must have been the catalyst for the human race.

If, however, humanity evolved from bacteria/fish/birds, etc then I guess we are all still related, but in a very broad sense. If we accept that as a possibility then we might as well say we are related to the birds in the trees, the fish in the sea and even bacteria as much as we are related to each other.

To answer your question I would say yes, if the first two people were Adam & Eve then we are all definitely related and if they weren't then we're still all definitely related, except our great, great, great ancestors may have been e-coli!

Answer 2

I Totally Agree I Said To My Mum That Are We All Related And Mention About Adam And Eve Beening The First People And She Said Know But Surely We Are All Related Somehow Because They Where The First Two

Answer 3

The answer to your question is yes.
In the late 1980's or early 1990's the results of an investigation into mitochondrial inheritance in women was reported in New Scientist. The conclusion was that all women living today are descended from a single woman. The article gave the estimated time and place that this woman had lived, but I cannot remember those details. The scientists involved called their theory 'The Eve theory'.
I've checked Google Scholar, but without finding the article. Scholar probably doesn't include articles that far back - at the moment anyway.
If you want to follow this up, you could try searching abstracting journals, or a big library like the British Library.

Answer 4

If there was just Adam and Eve then yes, we are all distantly related. Unfortunately you have the problem of the people in the village of Nod, where did they come from? God obviously created people separate from Adam and Eve. This is also stated that god created man on the sixth day and later specifically created Adam.

Even without the Bible we are still all distantly related, they can tell that easily enough through genetics.

Answer 5

Even if there was no Adam and Eve, the research indicates that we can all trace our roots back to one woman (Mitochondrial Eve) and one male (though they lived during different time periods and would not have known each other).

As such, yes, we are all related, but even worse -- because Mitochondrial Eve and DNA Adam were not partners, we have TWO ancestral relationships to every other human on the planet, not including our familial relationships!

The world suddenly looks a lot more Arkansan... (and yes, I can make the joke, I AM a native born Arkansan).

Answer 6

Adam and Eve could not have produced all the diversity we now see in human species. Therefore they were not the first two people on Earth, thats just a fairy story for kids told in a dubious book, the bible, itself a collection of fairy stories.

However in a sense we are related, in the past, about 75,000 years ago when it is thought that the human species was cut down in numbers to only 10000 or so. It is from those 10000 that we are now all descended. Of course theories vary but this event (called the Toba Bottleneck/Toba Catastrophe) is highly regarded, and is evidence that we are not all descended from one breeding pair, a literal Adam and Eve.

So forget your bible, and embrace science.

Answer 7

If you believe the Christian "creationism" theory then yes.

Scientifically speaking the area is still rather hazy as there is no definate answer as to where life can from. We may have all been formed (somewhat distantly) through the mitosis of a "first" single celled organism, in which case the answer would again be yes.

All matter originated from the big-bang. So it would be possible to say that you are related in a way to every living (or dead for that matter) thing on the planet, or indeed universe if you will.

Answer 8

What is it with you americans that you can´t accept the established fact of evolution? Are you really all evangelists over there?
Now, as I understand evolution and genetic mixing, our genes become so propagated over successive generations that, at least within a confined gene pool, after a few centuries we all share some common genes. So, yes, in that sense we are all related. However, we might be sharing so few genes that it really becomes a bit meaningless to use the word "related".
As an aside, by the same token we are all descendents of Jesus (and everybody else alive during his time), so The Davinci Code gets everything wrong.

Answer 9

Bill Bryson's book 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' deal with this. I can't remember exactly what he wrote, but the gist is thus; you have two parents, four granparents, eight great grandparents and so on. If you go back some 10 generations, you soon get more people than there are atoms in the universe, therefore, there must have been some serious incest back in the day (however distant). He explains it much better than that in his book, I really recommend it!

Answer 10

Adam and Eve existed, the Bible says so. Yes, we are all related. I am glad there are so many people out there who believe this like I do.