ANSWERS: 27
  • No. It says they were the first God created not the only ones.
  • Which is why I think Christians are, for want of a less rude term, not all that smart. I do believe there's a God, but not a God who's anywhere near as strict as a Christian God.
  • no creationism says lilith was the the first woman. not eve. and yes it would mean were all incest. pretty unbelieveable isnt it??
  • yes we have common name and dat s "human being"
  • Incest isn't frowned upon in ALL cultures, after all.
  • It doesn't because their children mated with the 'children of the Earth' or so I understand. . I believe a more authoritative answer will come your way soon.
  • Last names are a fairly recent invention. I'll gloss over the rest of your question
  • Don't forget that when in the beginning there was just Adam and Eve .... They had two sons ; Cain and Abel ..... Cain KILLED Able ... God banished Cain to the Land of Nod ; where he took a wife ... QUESTION: Where did the Mrs. cain come from ? it is all mixed up if you ask me ... and NO ONE has ever given a straight answer .... Finally at the buiding of the Tower of bable ; GOD decided to make different races and scatter them over the earth .... Hmmmm +5
  • Regarding last name, consider the Scandinavian practice. Cain and Abel would be known as Cain Adamson and Abel Adamson. If they had sons Joe and Tom, their names would be Joe Cainson and Tom Abelson. In the Middle East (Iraq for instance), people's last name is related to where they are from, at least originally. In England, people often took last names associated with their occupation (Baker, Archer, Fisher, Hunter, Cooper(barrelmaker), Shoemaker, Smith, etc).
  • The bible never says they were the only people created...just the first people.
  • Even if folks were scattered, technically we're all incestous.
  • No, Adam and Eve didn't have last names, it wasn't until long after they were dead it was thoguht that last names were needed. And Creationism has way too many logical holes, the evidence points towards evolution.
  • I had the same question here in AB. but see it doesn't seem to matter now. and why there are people who are too dark (Africans) and too white like Caucasians, the Chinese and other Asians. why from a single Iranian looking couple we all were converted to different looks. well, from the artists that made their images that was their perspective. but it may just symbolize that we are really from humans and not apes that evolved thru time
  • We would have come from an incestuous family no matter what theory you go with. Be it Adam and Eve, or the two 'mutants' who crawled out of the ooze at the same time and started making babies. As for last names, things change. My maternal family name was changed by my great great grandfather. Who knows how many times in history this has happened?
  • This has actually happened twice in Biblical history first with Adam and Eve then with Noah and his family after the flood. I recently read there have been about 500,000 generations here on earth, in the last 200,000 generations everyone of us come from an incestious occurance. Incest is not new and has occured many times throughout history and there are both good and bad occurances in the Bible of incest. For instance Abraham and Sarah were brother and sister yet God used them to bring fourth a nation. Incest today is more of a social problem than anything else dealing with it. Adult consentual incest should be allowed with no restrictions from the government as guarenteed by the rights of privacey guarenteed in the constitution of the USA, and what gay rights have used to gain their legal acceptance.
  • Yes, but it happened in West Virginia a long, long time ago and there are laws about that there
  • Yes, Adam and Eve's children had to have committed incest in order to keep people on this earth. The grandchildren of Noah also had to do this also. There was a study on this and it was figured that God knew there was enough people on this earth to where incest was not needed to keep humans on this earth. So He decided to make it a law not to do it by the time Moses came along. No one knows when last names were first givin to people. It is believed it came from the dark ages.
  • At first Adam and Eve were the only ones created. Or so they said. Then the theory was being questioned, another door was opened that said others were created. As soon as doubters start questioning the bible, the writers just invent a way to go around the question. How did Noah keep the animals from eating each other during the Great Flood? It rained for 40 days and 40 nights, so it must have taken months for the flood to recede. And where did the water go? There must be hundreds of questions out there about the bible.
  • Notice the chronology of Genesis. God created male and female man in His image on the 6th day and then rested on the seventh. Then, after his rest - an undetermined period of time, he formed Adam out of the dust of the Earth and placed him in the garden of Eden to tend it. Adam was not the first man. He was simply the one God made steward over the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the one through whose bloodline He would "provide Himself a lamb of sacrifice."
  • Why are taking creationism and adam and eve so seriously in the first place?
  • Were THEY the ONLY two--or just the FIRST two? Perhaps if we knew THAT--we can be more certain!!!
  • I wondered the same thing and a Christian friend of mine explained that the original DNA was much purer than what we have now, that our DNA has been corrupted over the generations. As a result, the incestuous inbreeding of the early generations did not produce such reproductive problems as what we see now. That's what she said, anyway. I have yet to see where that's written in the Bible.
  • I think the people who wrote the bible don't exactly know the negative effects fo incest and if any creationist believe we came from two people i will let them know that it is impossible that 6bil people would even be alive to this day.
  • close relations were allowed by God, until Lev 18.
  • According to the Human Genome Project, all of our genes can be traced back to Africa, and even one woman. Also according to the H.G.P., my DNA (or yours) and any random person's DNA in this whole world is different by only 0.01% We are all 99.99% alike.
  • The old testament stories are probably 4000 years old. And they were metaphorical, since there was no real scientific epistemology. No body cared or asked about possible incest. It was just a way do describe where people came from.
  • It would mean we're born of an incestuous family, but even if you don't believe in the Bible in a literal way and instead you believe in evolution, isn't that still basically true? We're all the same species: we all share the same genetic material. As for your second question, it's not that cut-and-dry. You must already know that people who share the same last name aren't necessarily related, and people who are related don't necessarily share the same last name. How we name each other isn't inherent to humanity: it changes from culture to culture. For instance, some cultures today have their family names first and their given names last. And in our culture, a lot of our last names have their origin in a certain place or an employment -- so for instance there could be a family today called "Smith" and the name "Smith" goes from generation to generation, and that family can trace their name back to a single man who was a blacksmith 800 years ago, a blacksmith, so people called him "Smith" -- but what were his ancestors called? You don't know. Similarly, a friend of mine in High School had a funny last name and I found out it was a mix of her parents' names: so no one in her family actually shared her name. But what is her kids' last name? It's her last name. So you can see last names are iffy that way.

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