Where did we come from?

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Anonymous wrote:I never understood Adam and Eve thing. How did they keep having babies? Inbreeding? There must’ve been some inbreeding in the beginning to get the balls rolling right?

A single mitochondrial Eve implies about the same thing.

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I don't know. We have three children. I don't know where babies come from. My husband explains the biology and cell division to me but I don't believe that's the heart of the answer. No clue. Life is a miracle? Comes from another realm?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where did God come from?

Has it occurred to you that we (humans) have no where near the intelligence to begin to understand God or where that intelligence came from?
Its like an ant trying to do calculus.

That doesn't stop some people from trying. I mean it's in our nature to be curious and try to figure things out. Frankly, I don't find your answer satisfying in the least.

The point is that an ant trying to do calculus is futile. Completely pointless at best and with possible negative consequences. An ant should focus on being the best ant that an ant can be rather than being a crappy ant that sits around trying to do impossible math equations and not contributing to the colony.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I never understood Adam and Eve thing. How did they keep having babies? Inbreeding? There must’ve been some inbreeding in the beginning to get the balls rolling right?

A single mitochondrial Eve implies about the same thing.

You are completely misinformed about the science of shared mitochondrial DNA. The term “Eve” is misleading and not a scientific term. Please educate yourself.

[Anonymous]

Evolution is an unproven theory

Big Bang is an unproven theory

Atheists would say Biblical creation is unproven.

None will ever be "proven" as fact. *All* take a leap of faith.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I never understood Adam and Eve thing. How did they keep having babies? Inbreeding? There must’ve been some inbreeding in the beginning to get the balls rolling right?

Yes. Incest. Since Adam and Eve were directly created god, I guess the assumption is that they were pure genetically (no harmful mutations). As a consequence, the first few generations did not suffer adversely from typical problems associated with inbreeding. There is no way to get around Adam and Eve's children marrying each other.

There is some interpretation of the Bible where Adam and Eve are representational figures of mankind, but that's a less prevalent view, I believe.

Following that logic, God was okay with that? Why didn't God create more sets of Adams and Eves so this problem could be avoided.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was raised Christian so I was taught we were created from Adam and Eve.

But as I’ve gotten older I see there is the belief we evolved from monkeys?


What are your thoughts about our origins? And how can any of us really know ever?

If you go to the museum of natural history, and watch the video of where we came from, it is explained

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Evolution is an unproven theory

Big Bang is an unproven theory

Atheists would say Biblical creation is unproven.

None will ever be "proven" as fact. *All* take a leap of faith.

Nah. Evolution has been proven. It's actually pretty simple stuff. Just like humans taking carbon from the ground and putting it in the atmosphere warms the planet. It's simple, and has been proven.

People just believe and accept what they want.

[Anonymous]

Eventually this conversation drives to the place where you reach the fundamental question: why is there something rather than nothing? This question is impossible to answer, even in principle. There are those that posit a creator, there are those that claim the nature of nothingness is such that universes can and do sponaneously come into being (I'd say from time to time, but my understanding is that this is not technically correct, as time itself is something that spontaneously appears with the universe and that there is no such thing as time "before" that occurs.) You pays your money and you takes your choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Evolution is an unproven theory

Big Bang is an unproven theory

Atheists would say Biblical creation is unproven.

None will ever be "proven" as fact. *All* take a leap of faith.

So tired.

Science is not faith. Up is not down.


Big bang can be tested for. There is solid evidence backed by data. What is the scientific evidence of god?

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Anonymous wrote:I never understood Adam and Eve thing. How did they keep having babies? Inbreeding? There must’ve been some inbreeding in the beginning to get the balls rolling right?

A single mitochondrial Eve implies about the same thing.

You are completely misinformed about the science of shared mitochondrial DNA. The term “Eve” is misleading and not a scientific term. Please educate yourself.

Note that I said single. Learn to read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where did God come from?

Man’s imagination.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I never understood Adam and Eve thing. How did they keep having babies? Inbreeding? There must’ve been some inbreeding in the beginning to get the balls rolling right?

Yes. Incest. Since Adam and Eve were directly created god, I guess the assumption is that they were pure genetically (no harmful mutations). As a consequence, the first few generations did not suffer adversely from typical problems associated with inbreeding. There is no way to get around Adam and Eve's children marrying each other.

There is some interpretation of the Bible where Adam and Eve are representational figures of mankind, but that's a less prevalent view, I believe.

Mitochondrial dna does not support this. Modern man, as I remember, descends from 5 different women that span different eras. (But it’s been a while since a theology class)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Science has not been able - so far - to figure out yet how life on earth got started, but that day is coming. I believe that at some point scientists who are working on this question will be able to replicate the conditions that generated life on this planet.

The Big Bang is more than the name of a tv show.

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Anonymous wrote:Science has not been able - so far - to figure out yet how life on earth got started, but that day is coming. I believe that at some point scientists who are working on this question will be able to replicate the conditions that generated life on this planet.

The Big Bang is more than the name of a tv show.

? not sure what you're trying to say, but the big bang attempts to explain how the universe was created. The post you're responding to concerns life on earth. The big bang doesn't even address that.