Does the story of Adam and Eve go against the theory of evolution?

Question

or does it confirm it? For caucasian, black, asian and all the subtler genetic variations not show evolution? If all mankind derived for just 2 humans there had to be evolution to develope the different races that exist in the world today correct or no? If no please explain your belief in how the different races came about.

Oh god there I go again, what am I thinking bringing logic into this?

Ever notice how they attack the person and not explain the position?

Notice how all the evolution is false use evolution "gene mutation" to explain why it is false??

Answer 1

Logic and common sense cannot enter a fundie brain.

Adam and Eve do not have to disprove evolution. Evolution is fact. Why couldn't Adam and Eve also be true? That is, if you insist on believeing that ludicrous story.

So He created Eve from Adam. So what? There were already other people on every other continent.

Genesis disproves Genesis. Cain found a wife in Nod.

Answer 2

Hi, I will try to be brief. No, Adam and Eve is about creation, not evolution. Adam and Eve had all the genes possible in their makeup. Through their offspring, these genes were scattered around the world. As the population grew, people began to live in extended families, then clans, then eventually tribes, people groups, what's called races today. People lived mostly isolated from each other until the last two hundred years, so they married and reproduced mostly within their own tribes, etc. Therefore, the gene pool in their specific people group was limited, and certain recessive genes would be "bred out" if you will. Basically, the Chinese married the Chinese for thousands of years, so the dominant genes in their pool would be to have Asian features, dark hair...the Celts married the Celts and their children are all fair and light-haired. Sorry to be long-winded, but there simply is no such thing as "race." Try traveling from Turkey through Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan to western China to eastern China. You'll see a graduation of the Turk features to the Central Asian features to the more "oriental" features of the eastern Chinese. How would you classify the Kazakh people? They are a Turkish people with "oriental" features. Hope that helped.

Answer 3

Lets say that the story of Adam and Eve and the Theory of Evolution are both true. This is one of the great mysteries that God created. Our minds cannot yet comprehend this. Scientist are still searching on the answers of the origin of Humanity. As they find more answers they stumble upon more questions thus making the puzzle more difficult. We should not interpret the story of Adam and Eve literally. By now we may not be able to explain this because the answers that we hold are partial. Our future generations might find answers on the origins of man and they might interpret the story of adam and Eve more acurately. As of now only God knows the answer.

Answer 4

Yes and no. On the surface, it would seem to contradict evolution. However, I tend to believe that God used some form of evolution to bring about everything we have before us. When we return to His presence, we will find out how He did it. In the mean time, we can speculate on how it happened. You are right about the races developing their genetic variations since the days of Noah. That alone is testimony to some form of evolutionary processing. I am willing to believe that species evolved faster than science thinks. Somewhere in the timeline of creation, our scientific forebears came to a point where God said, "now, they are ready" and He placed the spirits of Adam and Eve into the bodies of modern man, thus becoming the first parents in the family of God's children. That is one way of looking at it. Brigham Young taught that Adam and Eve were born of woman just like everbody else. Were they brought by God from one of His other planets to start His family here on this earth? That is another theory. If the other hominids before Adam and Eve were not part of God's family, then they would be just another species of creature in God's numerous creations, like the other animals with which we are familiar.
For my part, trained in science and law to be basically sceptical and to think things through, I am willing to compartmentalize my knowledge into religious and scientific categories until such time as I come across a definitive resolution of the two approaches to life on earth.

Answer 5

It goes entirely and completely against the theory of evolution.
As for explaining the races-
There is really only ONE race. The HUMAN race. The differences can be explained this way-
At the Tower of Babel, when God confused the languages, this effectively divided mankind up into different groups, people staying with people they could understand and moving to different areas of the world. Of course.
This action ALSO narrowed the gene pool down. Over time, the dominant gene characteristics showed themselves.
Consider this: Native Americans all have the same basic features, darker skin, dark hair, etc.
Native Africans all have dark skin, curled hair, etc.
Native Asians all have their characteristics also, the Germanic, so on and so forth.
There is no evolution, it's only dominant genes...and ONE race.

Answer 6

The story of Adam and Eve does conflict with the evolution theory. I don't know about the other people on Y!A but i know i didn't come from a caveman . There was an evolution that developed the different races, its call climate. Obviously Caucasian people lived in cooler climates than Africans, making their skin less pigmented due to the less amount of sun that they endure. And back then, they lived in tribal groups, per-say, so when someone broke away from their family group, then they would take their whole family with them, and thier family was made up of wife, kids, parents, aunts, uncles, and everyone else so that in itself could be enough to start a whole nation.

Answer 7

This isn't proof that Adam and Eve existed, but through mitochondrial DNA studies they have managed to find a common female ancestor for everyone alive today. Check out the Mitochondrial Eve at Wikipedia.

Genetics is much more complex than when I took biology, but from what I understood then, white or lighter skin would have been a mutation from the original darker skinned ancestors.

Answer 8

I dont think that they existed. It is more complex then a god of sorts throwing two created poeple on a planet and see if they could live by certain rules. If god was perfect why create an imperfect product and continue to test and tempt them? I do not know how the different races came about. My theory is many people over many years evolved around climate, foods and disease creating many different, skin colors, heights, shapes etc...

I do not think that any race is over the other. This came about because of the ignorance of man, which sadly still exists today.

Answer 9

in my human species class, my professor said that when it came to the bible and new species evolving, people of the time simply thought that they hadn't found that creature yet but it had been around since god made the earth. if this is correct, then all the black and asian etc. people were just hiding in caves until other people "discovered" them. so yea, doesn't seem likely right? lol. when it comes to adam and eve and the bible, evolution really doesn't jive with it. hope this helps, and yes i do believe in evolution.

Answer 10

Actually, the two-parents-of-us-all Biblical story of Adam and Eve doesn't go against current thinking about evolution at all. Scientists have traced back, through DNA studies (especially mitochondrial DNA, which is transmitted unchanged through the females), to our supposed origins, and believe that we all descended from a single female hominid in Africa. They have found that this particular portion of our DNA is common to everyone in the world.

I can refer you to an excellent article in the March 2006 issue of the National Geographic Magazine, "The Greatest Journey" which describes the techniques used to come to this conclusion. They state "DNA studies have confirmed this opening chapter of our story over and over: All the variously shaped and shaded people of Earth trace their ancestry to African hunter-gatherers, some 150,000 years ago."