Was Adam and Eve really the first humans on earth?

Maid Angela, if your assertion is true such story could have lost considering that 2,011 years and more have passed. Even the Bible would have not existed if its accounts were just concocted by humans. But the God of the Bible is Almighty by having preserved the Bible and the accounts it says: "Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for My Mouth it hath commanded, and His Spirit hath gathered them." -- Isaiah 34:16

I am not reading the "factual scientific papers".I did that and i`ve seen a lot of probably and maybe in there .If you think that`s science then i`m happy for you but i refuse to think we are an accident and our life has no meaning.

I am sorry but i can believe what i want.For many people there is enough evidence all around to support the idea that we have been created.Like you believe the story with evolution because it makes sense for you, the same i believe we have been created.

I do as well. I also believe in Darwin's Evolution, and many scientist have actually been able to prove it. Also, there are several origin stories on this planet. The Native Americans, my mother's people, have several different origin stories: http://www.indigenouspeople.net/legend.htm http://www.crystalinks.com/nativeamcreation.html http://www.indians.org/welker/legend.htm http://chnm.gmu.edu/exploring/pre_18thcentury/creationstories/index.php http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3XoYZgvEH8 http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/loreindx.html http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/creation.myths.html http://libguides.asu.edu/content.php?pid=3897&sid=33941 There are so many origin stories that it would take a some time to go through them, but it's funny how most of them say that humans came from dirt, clay or maze.

I actually happen to be the proud owner of two copies of "Origin of the Species" by Charles Darwin. Now, this was man who was a Christian, but even he believed that if there were to be a God, this God wouldn't have made us the way that the Bible describes it. According to his theory, we evolved. When he first came out with this statement, everyone criticized him, and people still do to this day. As science and technology progress, so does the need for research and development. Research has shown that we humans came from an "Eve", but there is no suggestion to whom the "Adam" was. All of the ancestry on the planet can be traced back to Africa according to modern science, but people are still trying to recover more bones, and they are still trying to find a perfect "The Missing Link". Having "Lucy" helps, and her discovery was not a bad thing. "Lucy" is a hominid that was found a while back, the 1970s I believe, and she was named after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" because that song was playing when the archaeologists discovered her bones. This was a remarkable discovery in Darwinist everywhere because it proved Darwin's theory. I also know some Christians out there who are willing to believe in Hybrid Theory. The belief that there is a God, and that God created the Big Bang and Evolution. If this is what people want to believe, then they are entitled to this belief as well. I will not dispute it. My father was a Theist, according to my mother, and he too believed in the Hybrid Theory. Most of my family believes it and they are all Jewish and Catholic.

The medieval Jew, Nahmanides interpreted the beginning of Genesis to mean that the universe began as a single point and grew out from there. How he came to that conclusion I can't imagine, but what is certain is that he didn't have modern science to kowtow to, so there is the possibility that he may have been right in his exegesis. In which case the doctrine that God created the Big Bang is strictly compatible with the strictest Bible fundamentalism. On the other hand, as Michael Behe has been given publicity for saying, Darwinism is not compatible with what we now know about genetics, so there is no need to believe either in Evolution or its direction by God.

good point. although also, it wasn't written at that time. it was written much much later than the beginning of human kind, which far predated either of those religions.

ok there were no Christians at that time when the story was written.

I believe it's a story to explain to Christians why a God that they... That story was written for Jews people,there were no Christians at that time

If we are part of the same family, how do you explain the differing skin colours, hair colours, eyes etc.?

Thanks for responding! We explain it the same way that we explain roses of different colors or tomatoes, etc. God loves variety and made it so that our skin color would have a huge variety. Isn't the variety amazing? Did you know that no two blades of grass are alike nor two flakes of snow? What an amazing Creator we have!

Jenna, You may want to read my comment below, and to check out the video I posted to satisfy your inquisitive mind.

Thank you Jer! I'll definitely go check out that video.

Chatpilot but the first incestuous relationship is between Adam and ...himself since Eve was created from his rib. Here is another idea. Adam lived 930 years.Sem lived 600 years.And the age is dropping with every generation.Isn`t that a sign of genetic degeneration ? Then at a certain point God will forbid the incest.

Chatpilot, for a human being it may really be impossible to bear multiple children. That is because you are seeing it from a human perspective ONLY. Since you claim to have read the Bible in its entirety, I surmise that you also noted that it was God who made the commandment to them "to multiply and subdue the earth." God will surely enable them to fulfill His commandments by giving them strength to bear sons and daughters who will in turn have their respective sons and daughters.

JER616, In the KJV (King James Version) correct me if im wrong but I believe God said to Adam and Eve "multiply and REPLENSIH the earth", meaning human life was on earth before God made Adam and Eve.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Sorry, correction: his sister because no other women...

Well, the thing is that no one was around when the Earth was created, so no one knows for sure how the Earth and the Universe began, but everyone has theories. Science has so far managed to come up with plausible ideas and theories on how the Universe may have been formed, and they have some compelling research seeing as how they are finding more research about the universe every day. When is comes to humanity, as I have stated in one of my other post, we have "Lucy", and she proves Darwin's Theory, and she is far from perfect, but she is a step in the right direction. Scientist are still looking for that perfect "missing link" and sooner or later they might find it.

Why do older woman in a man? Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA studies indicate that we have a single common ancestor and the mother. Researchers have been somewhat puzzled by the fact that the female mitochondrial DNA by the figures show somewhat farther back than in the male Y chromosome. This is a very biblical frame of reference, according to which the common esi foremother Eve, long before the flood-term pre-Noah our father. Bible researchers, human perceptions of creation and Noah's between the length of time anging from a few thousand to tens of thousands of years until, depending on eg. generation of the concept of interpretation. The difference is, however, be noted. Noah did not have daughters, so the sheet of female limbs, and three of his wife and his son's wife could still be left Eve times inheritable genetic diversity. Preserved in the ark were the men on the other hand, all descendants of Noah, so the Y-chromosome can appear only on the changes that have occurred after that time. Genetic Researchers also found an interesting fact: "This low genetic variation makes people more vulnerable to various diseases." From this we can conclude that in Genesis, reported a long life expectancy began to decrease significantly after the flood. Another obvious consequence of the genetic impoverishment of the different variations of the human race, or decline. Evolutionary precursor to the modern man imagined 'hominid' may thus be just before the Flood lived human types, and in some cases, the disorder driven growth to individuals or extinct apes.

Doh, didn't check my spelling...moot point I meant to say.

What proof do we have that humans are older than 10,000 years? The Bible only gives an accurate record of mankind from when Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, which is about 6000 years. We have no idea how long Adam was by himself and how long Adam and Eve lived together before they sinned.

Actually now it`s the year 7519

I know the bible shouldn't be taken literally, seeing that there are other earlier religions that tell a very similar story. And my intent was to show others exactly that.

Well, no matter the origin of our species, all would start a bit incestuous. There had to be a first woman and man sometime, and their kids would have had to be the ones to procreate.

Dark_joey do you say our "common ancestor" were many ? Like if a baby deer started to walk right away isn`t that a mutation that appears to one individual ? Same for the human specie.Are you saying the same mutation appeared to hundreds or thousands all over the world ?

Dark, in our present time, there is no need for incestuous relationship considering that humanity is widely distributed and populated. Back then, God permitted incestous relationship because of the "need" for them to populate the earth. Since God Himself commanded them to multiply and subdue the earth, He would not let gene mutation and disorder take place. Hence, divine intervention certainly took place.

@JER.. yes thanks for providing the info I missed writing. Incest was forbidden during the time of Moses and this law was specifically mentioned in Leviticus 18:6-18. JER, Yes I overlooked that, the Bible did mention he begat sons and daughter (I stand corrected, thanks!) but not in Genesis 5:3 but in Genesis 5:4 (take note). "And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters." Gen. 5:4 Indeed Adam begat other sons and daughters as well but the Bible did not give the exact number and their names either

It is also very vital to differentiate and distinguish between incestuous relationships prior to God 's command against incest as written in Leviticus 18:6-18 and incest committed after this commandment. Until God commanded against it, it was not sinful at all because God allows this in the early days of humanity. Marrying a close relative before the law was simply a normal marriage between close relatives. If intermarriage was not allowed how could they have reproduced and multiply? So there were no other choice but to marry and reproduce with their siblings and kins.

Salonga, incest was only forbidden during the time of Moses when the Ten Commandments and all Mosaic laws were handed down to the Israelites for them to observe upon a triumphant exit from Egypt. The Bible DID mention that Adam and Eve had children aside from Cain, Abel and Seth. You must have just overlooked it. It is in Genesis 5:3.

Adam and Eve were the perfect people. They did not have genetic defects, before they sinned, and took the forbidden fruit. Their children went to get married with each other. Adam and Eve must have been the daughters. The Bible don't just talk about everything. Creating it took a long time, even millions of years, before the people in earth. The Bible speaks of the word 'day'. And the 'day' in the Bible represents the time periods of different lengths. Not always humans 'day'. Terrible lizards has been in existence before the creation of man and they have been destroyed in the earth some way before the people.

Writer, you can begin the research by getting samples of the DNA from all races, trace them back and identify common components thereon.

Enrique, I don't think your uncle is correct with what he was saying. The realization of God's intent to create man "in [Their] image, in [Their] likeness" was Adam, not prehistoric humans as world history tells us. Consider this: "God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. And there was evening and morning-- the sixth day" (Genesis 1:31). Prehistoric men depicted in world history appeared to have imperfections and could have not been the first humans. Please also take note of this: "By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had done." -- Genesis 2:2 Before resting on the seventh day, God has finished His work of creating all His creations, including humans mind you. The Bible did not report that He went back to work after the seventh day.