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Quote by: Osborn F Enready  Ok, so, the believers tell us Adam and Eve were the first of our "race".
Would the believers agree with that terminology?
If Adam and Eve were the first of our race, and Eve was created from Adams rib, wouldn't that mean Eve would have Adams DNA, thereby skewing the gene pool between them?
If the claim is that God intervened to prevent this genetic misfortune, where is that supported?
If God supposedly did intervene, then what about the kids? Over history we have had proven time and time again that incest breeds several forms of genetic errors, retardation, etc. How do "believers" deal with this obvious logical flaw?
Also, regarding Adam and Eve, according to the "texts", when did they live?
I would like to see how we have reached this population number, in that amount of time, and explain how the numbers don't match.
Honest questions, based in logic, that I would like to see addressed by believers, if any care to address them. logicly. |
I guess I will never understand the most stringent of literalists, and the Adam and Eve myth is right up there at the top... many of the points you bring up highlight that fact. I suppose if someone believes in the theory of "poof;" that whatever doesn't make sense or isn't workable God just went "poof..." then that someone is as consistent as those who believe in fairies. leprechauns, gremlins; and their pots of gold, or golems. But, of course, if we simply had accepted "poof" as a rule of the universe we probably would still think the Earth was flat and question the concept of gravity itself. We might just say, "God does it, and if we displease him we'll all just float away."
I don't type this to dis the believer, just those who are the most extreme in their literalism.
The only thing I listed that I do believe in is gremlins. You know, where did the thing I go that was in my hand a second ago, why do I look 10 times in one place for something and find it there on the 11th and why are there days/weeks/months where everything that possibly could go wrong seems to go wrong? I type this paragraph almost completely in jest. Almost. Some days I wonder.