Well I'm not religous or know a lot of things about the the bible. But is it true that we came from 2 people and 2 people only adam and eve (sp i really dont know). So if we came from them then we would all be related in some way. So is this a big chain of incest since we are all related and still have kids with eachother? I know I have a good chance of being wrong just let me know.
well anyone who knows anything about genetics and breeding knows that small groups who interbreed become over generations much smaller specimens... so that either means adam and eve were giants or the pygmy populations in africa are gods chosen.....hmmmm
yes and there is an interesting idea " we did not come from 2 people and 2 people only adam and eve, we came from "monkey race"(i dont remember they say monkey or orangutan...lol) so what we r then?human,animal,amoeba,paramecium,...??
We evolved. Evolution. It's as simple as that, well thats what I think anyway. I don't "believe" in religion.
Do you really believe that we evolved from a "Monkey race"? And what do you mean by "I don't believe in religion".
According to the bible and most other supernatural creation myths, mankind started off with only two people. Obviously this cannot be true since, as you point out, this would mean incest in a huge way, and with incest comes a huge genetic price to pay in the form of degradation of genetic material passed on from one generation to the next. Nonetheless we are all "related" to eachother in one way or the other. The transition from pre-human primate to human was a long slow process that involved several thousand individual inhabitants of one particular primate species that evolved as a group into what we now know as modern man. And we did not evolve in a vaccuum either, from the same stock, several other pre-human primates was running around competing for resources with what eventually became homo sapiens sapiens. Those other species died out as they were not as adaptive to changing climate as we were. So allthough we share a common ancestor, that ancestor was not a mere man and a woman, but several thousand men and women. All this took place in Africa, as mankind grew and expanded, we adopted to our new enviroments throughout the world, and thus we got distinct ethnic groups and variations according to geographic location and resources available. The most pronounced difference have been skincolour obviously. Lots of pigment (and thus dark skin) in hot sunny areas, and less pigment in less warm and sunny areas. Some enviroments was rich in food and favoured a big strong human bodyframe, whilst others was more scarce and favoured small lean frames. And we haven't stopped evolving either. Due to increase in foodstocks and healthcare in the last 200 years alone, we've seen a marked increase in mean height among the european population for example. Maybe in a couple of hundredthousand years, we living today will be looked upon as just as primitive forms of humanity as we today look upon the neanderthals
Yea, basically what Zylark said. I still keep in mind that anything is a possibility though. I guess I was generalizing. I don't believe in Christianity in this case. But I really don't like religion at all because it doesn't keep your mind open to all possibilities of life.
Ping to your original post, in the Bible there are some breaks in time so great that we have no idea how population actually spread. The stories lead you to believe that we came from Adam & Eve, but we will never really know. My husband has some intersting thinking on this subect, for your future ponderance/comments. He feels that we are not alone in the universe. He thinks that meteorites and pieces of other planets outside of our universe made there way to Earth bringing new organisims, which helped put evolution on its path. Especially what created the first human(oid) and we have been evolving ever since. (human not monkey) I don't really agree with this as I haven't made my mind up about other life "out there"...