If adam and eve were the first two people alive, wouldn't all their decendants be inbred?

Question

I feel like our gene pool wouldn't be as diverse as it is now if we were to actually believe the story of adam and eve

the only biblical explanation i can think of for a slightly varied gene pool would be Lilith having kids with Adam too but that is really not enough for a varied gene pool within 2 generations.

And I don't want to hear any of this "The bible says it, don't contest it" bullcrap.

Answer 1

Cain and Seth went west to the land of Nod to find wives. Those wives were of no relation to Adam and Eve. God created them separately, and it wasn't eventful enough to write about.

~Atheist~

Answer 2

Good question:

Adam & Eve had a perfect DNA and very big gene pool. The change in the Gene pool began after the flood (or what Evolutionists refer to as the Ice Age)
Since that Time God forbade marrying very close relations.

Now portraits of the Spanish Dynasty are good examples of the limited gene pool of 'modern' man.

The great irony in all of this is that Man in the beginning was bigger, smarter, and healthier than modern man. But modern man digs around in caves looking for clues from his 'primordial past'.

What a bunch of over-educated know-it-all gas bags the Secular world has truly become. Your close mindedness is leading us into a second Dark Ages of European and Western History. It is scary to watch history repeating itself.

A good crisis or two and our civilization is done for. Freedom will soon disappear.

People who ignorantly believe like you, have already removed Intelligent Design teaching from schools in the 60's. Now you are cleaning up your bloody mess with school shootings every week in the USA.

What we think, what we believe, and the attitudes we develop have a direct impact on how we behave.

The gene pool was so strong in those days that Noah and his wife had a child that was the "Father" of the Black Race. His other son was the father of the Asian Races, and the other son was the father of the White Races.

It is the specialized breeding amongst humans that has helped to shrink the gene pool. Have you ever noticed how mixed raced people tend to be the most beautiful, vibrant and healthiest humans on the planet?

Answer 3

Of course, all of this is speculation, cause how could it not be, since our origins are really still quite an enigma to us. But, I have been told by some serious scholars, whether Christian, conservative Jew, or agnostic, that the third law of thermodynamics suggests that our ancestry must have been much more genetically complex and prevailing than ours today, so that inbredness would not have been such a threat as it is now, and of course for previous millenia.

Also, they suggest that not only our ancestry, but the chemical makeup of our material world as well, consisted of much less toxins, sicknesses, and disease. Therefore, our corporeal bodies were at that time more resilient to any possible foreign substance that would attack and wear us down, especially our immune systems, as well as experiencing much less frequent and less severe assaults from any foreign agents. It is why many believe that it could have been very possible for the earliest of our ancient ancestry to have lived much longer on earth, possibly even as long as 1,000 years (i.e., Methuselah to 969)! Of course, it's also very possible, as you have suggested, that Adam had other descendants that came from someone else other than Eve, because the Bible's purpose is not to mention everyone in his lineage, but only those who are most relevant to the accounts thay we now have. This certainly would have helped make our gene pool more diverse, but not necessarily needed in order to account for the diversity that we actually have today.

Now, we know from the book of Genesis that after civilization was annihilated by a great flood (i.e. we have evidence of this in many of the ancient tels in the Near East's strata of such an event), Noah and his family survived via the ark. (Again, there's evidence that this large wooden barge-like vessel was sighted many a time by pioneers in the19th and early 20th centuries climbing Mt. Ararat in Armenia, but then it was enveloped by a huge glacier sometime during the early to mid-20th century.) His male children were Shem (all the semites such as the Jews, Arabs, and Elamites (Persians), Ham (all his descendants were Africans), and Japheth (all Indo-European peoples, which covers all Eurasia, except for the Middle East).

Answer 4

I'm not Christian... but I did study it, because I'm open minded that way. Now I'm DEFINITELY not Christian. Aiii...

Anyways, I have 2 answers for that one.

#1. The pre-adamite theory. There are actually 2 creation accounts, as it were, somewhat conflicting. First is Gen 1:1-2:3, and the second account is 2:4-2:5. Read it if you like :P

Anyways, one theory crafted by some Christians is that God made a lot of humans, but Adam and Eve were the chosen ones in his image, were the perfect ones. The others contributed to the gene pool, and various theories on that.. rather than making conflict, Google "pre adamite" and have fun.

#2. A major Christian theory is that the "mark of Cain" turned cain and all his descendants black. One of the reasons why early Christians (long time ago, I'm not attacking you "enlightened" christians of today *yawns*) were able to use the bible to justify racism. So... who knows, maybe the Christian God decided to completely go haywire with Cain's genes. *shrugs* Or made them all wives, just not named so in the bible, of all sizes, shapes and colors.

Ah, and here's a #3, not really in the Bible... hey, maybe Genesis is a Myth passed down by word of mouth for god knows how long, and evolution was God's actual tool in the crafting of the world? There's your genepool :P

Answer 5

Well, think of it this way: even if Adam and Eve were real, and every human being on this Earth was the product of incest of these two individuals, people of different races and ethnicities had to come about somehow - the adaptation and gradual change to peoples' environments (a.k.a. evolution, which they don't believe in).

I don't know how else you can explain the enormous diversity of humans, when they all stemmed from just two. The development of different eye colors, skin colors, hair colors, heights, and body structures among people around the world wouldn't have happened from just two people a few thousand years ago; the genes cannot mutate and change that dramatically and quickly if the Adam and Eve story is true.

Answer 6

Actually, if Adam and Eve were the first and only members of the human species, we would not be alive. Two people do not have the genetic variety to reproduce a species. We wouldn't be inbred -- we'd be extinct.

Why not accept that Genesis, like many creation stories, is not a reflection of reality?

Answer 7

Yes and no. It says that Cain wondered into the land of Nod and met a woman (whose name escapes me) Adam and Eve also had another son Seth, and he makes children. I can't say for sure because it is not specific enough.

Answer 8

Yes, that is true. However, chromosomes trade genes sometimes, so that would create more diversity, but not enough to create race as diverse as the human one.

I think that Adam and Eve were the first homo sapiens to have evolved from the previous form.

Answer 9

adam and eve were not the first two on earth. they were the eighth day creation.all races and creatures were made in the first 6 days. adam and eve on day 8 after god rested on the 7th. read it for yourself.

Answer 10

I was told it was the "tribe" adam (and I suppose Eve). I know different nations have come from different people so I guess I can see how that could be true.