a question which I think has no answer

July 1, 2011 4:38am CST
I would love to hear what mylot think of this question that I and a lot of people cannot answer. First there was Adam and Eve. They had 2 children Kane and Abel. Kane slew Abel and then got a Wife. Now the question is where did the Wife come from?
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@Near2011 (155)
• United States
1 Jul 11
that is a tricky situation there. There are only 2 possible answers: 1. God made others, but only Adam and Eve were mentioned, because they were first or 2. Some incest took place or you can always go with option 3 which assumes that maybe the whole theory is incorrect.
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@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
3. Or it is like the story of CLASH OF THE TITANS.... this Zeus s3x with a female human and Perseus is born.... half-human and a half-god....
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13 Jul 11
as we are all direct desendants of Adam and Eve it makes sense that it was incest took a large part in it.
• United States
1 Jul 11
She came through the Stargate.
@petersum (4522)
• United States
1 Jul 11
Oh, of course! I didn't think of that. Well it's as believable as any other theory I've heard!
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• United States
2 Jul 11
Lol, yea! She warped in through the warp gate!
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
as long as there is no Scientific form of Evidence to support such claims, it will only remains as good as a Myth.....
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@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
1 Jul 11
haha nice one I think that is right... I mean no one knows who orr where the wife came from. but I think there could have been incest going on before based on stories that alsobtaken from the bible.
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• Philippines
2 Jul 11
You just don't know what you are saying Mantis... you think that seven days is equivalent to seven days of what humans define. You don't know that one day to God is equivalent to thousand years to man and you don't even believe in the Word of God so there is no reason for you to believe the creation of man, that Christ is the Son of God and you will never ever believe that He is also going to come back. For you its all myth, I respect that, but you cannot dictate everyone here what's their opinion.
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
if where did Cain get his wife cannot be answer because it's a bible's myth.... how about Genesis by creating everything up to Adam and Eve by just 7 days??? another form of Myth.... you see????? starting with a Myth, produces another Myth, and Myth with a Myth creates another big Myth.... go and multiply the Myth....
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
i interview about the interpretations: Roman Catholics: they believe that in Genesis, God created everything in the universe in just exactly 7 days.... Jehovah's Witnesses: they believe that for God's 1 day is equivalent to a 1 billion years more or less.... but if you said that God's 1 day is only equivalent to a thousand years, i think it's wrong.... Jehovah's Witnesses and Science is right.... for God's 1 day is more or less 1 billion years and not only a thousand of years like what you said....
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@GemmaR (8517)
1 Jul 11
I am not sure, and I think that is a very good question. Did Adam and Eve not have a daughter, too, maybe that wasn't documented in the Bible? That is the only thing that I can think of to be honest with you, otherwise I don't have a clue. The thing is with the Bible, I think that a lot of it is more metaphor than concrete truth. We can learn some amazing lessons from it, and I certainly have done in my life, so there is no need to think this deeply about absolutely everything that you read in it because the lessons are still there for you regardless.
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13 Jul 11
could be especially as we dont know if anyone was retarded only that some of them were healed x
@petersum (4522)
• United States
1 Jul 11
While I agree with you about learning lessons, I fail to see anything other than incest in this particular bible story. Daughter + son = incest.
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@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
and Daughter + son is INBREEDING and Daughter + son produce retarded children and retarded children + retarded children produces a big retarded community.... because, it is no longer called CROSSBREEDING.....
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@petersum (4522)
• United States
1 Jul 11
Don't remember any wife being there. I thought he banged his mother. Not so unusual if you consider how Catholic priests behave.
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@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
2 Jul 11
Well that would explain why common sense has never been too common. ;)
13 Jul 11
ah Catholic priests and how they behave is definately a good subject to bring up sometime.
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
INBREEDING is not the answer, it will only produces retarded offspring's....
• United States
1 Jul 11
Awesome thread. I'm very amused by all of this so far. I think the bible clearly stated that God created Adam in his imagine. He then created Eve from Adam's rib. Not sure what that makes them but if they had kids together it probably counts as incest. Someone needs to draw a family tree. That would be interesting.
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13 Jul 11
these things happen! you cannot see the air or wind all the time but you know it is there don t you x
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
Even taken from Adam's Ribs is another form of Myth... it is clearly called Magic, a rib turn to be a female human... like a handkerchief turns into a dove..... with an abrakadabra, or hokuspokus.... the man inside the big cube turns into a dog.... without scientific explanation but by just kabbooooommm!!!! there goes Eve.... i believe that God made Eve not in a form of magic but in a scientific way with a scientific explanation....
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
13 Jul 11
we human being have a total of 5 senses.... thus... sense of sight is not capable to detect air.... but... sense of feel is not also capable to detect air... now... if air (Hydrogen) same explanation, we can't see air.... if air (Oxygen) same explanation, we can't see air.... but... if air is mixed with (Hydrogen 2 Oxygen) different explanation, therefore... WE CAN NOW SEE AIR (H2O) or Water..... now.... you still cannot see the air(water)??????? moral lesson: there is no such thing as magic, sorcery or talisman.... God do it in a natural scientific way and... God don't do it in a magical way....
• Philippines
1 Jul 11
There are other beings aside from us humans, eventhough this beings have the same physical atrributes as us. It was only Adam and Eve that is created as Humans the rest are beings that can be considered as Angels... or what we might want to call it...
• United States
3 Jul 11
An angel is not a myth, Mantis, since we don't know what an angel actually is. It seems you are using the early Christian definition that earth is the center of the universe and we are the only beings in the universe. Thus, nothing else exists unless we see it on earth. So what is magic and myth? There are no unicorns on earth. True. But to say that unicorns don't exist is begging the question. In this vast universe, a unicorn exists SOMEWHERE. And the same can be said for angels. Yet angels, whatever they are, seem to be closer than we think.
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
3 Jul 11
as long as there is no proven Scientific evidence to support such claims, it will only remains as a myth.... yet we know that there is a civilization out there aside from us, but we can prove nothing.... Angel's in religion, it is only a miss-interpretation of what we call ENERGY Unicorns is also a myth because until now, we have no proven evidence to support such claims.... even in the court of law, unicorn is not acceptable as a sort of evidence.... In the world of Science: it needs a lot of evidence, a lot of solid evidence to support in order to conclude... this is what they called in the category of "CLOSED ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND".... take a note: it's a 3rd Kind..... not first, not second.... Whereas.... in the world of religion: a suspected Virgin Mary Apparition.... or a Dancing Sun occurs in.... or a clouds forming an image of Jesus Christ.... or in a portion of the bark of a tree there goes an image-like of Virgin Mary... or the statue of Virgin Mary, there goes a blood coming out of it's statue's eyes... then.... all of this is all a myth because there is no proven scientific evidence to support such claims.... that if this put to the court of law, a suspect criminal is about to enter jail without court hearing or without chance himself to defend, but putting inside the jail for the rest of his her life even thou the accuse is innocent....... note: remember the sayings: "Don't trust your eyes????" this simply means that before the situations become real, a lot of scientific evidence to provide to support such claims... not just one, but plenty.... even when you report what you see to the police.... hey you police, come here, i see a unicorn.... that police will only laugh because we have no supporting evidence but only a word of mouth.....
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
another form of myth if a Human s3x with an Angel.... and besides, where in the Bible (another form of myth) could you find those Angels got a husband of Human like Cain???? what verse, what chapter??? you see? Angel is a Mutant, why??? because it's a 50% Mammal and the remaining 50% is Bird since angel has a skin hair of a Mammal and a wings of a birds feathers... if Angel s3x with Cain... therefore, all of the highest animal form ruled the earth is all mutants....
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
Who told you dear that there is no answer to that? Remember that Adam and Eve was still alive so it is but natural that they produced more children so Cain's wife was of course one of her sisters who was born soon after. It is also very possible that Adam and Eve produced more children of different gender and there was intermarriage within the family circle which was not prohibited then. So there... That is the reason why they multiply.
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
4 Jul 11
Mantis please refer to the Bible so that you will have a better understand of this issue. If you will always rely on scientific explanation you will not grow wise. Do you know that the Word of God will give you wisdom science can't even do and can't possibly explain. If you will read the Bible you will understand why inbreeding did not produce retarded offspring during the early times. You should know that apart from sons and daughters of Adam and Eve (Genesis 4), Even Abraham married half-siter Sarah (Genesis 20:12)But their son Isaac was never retarded. Moses’ father Amram married his aunt Jochebed (Exodus 6:20). Those relationships were not forbidden then actually. God had not yet issued any command against inbreeding. God issued a commandment against it only during Leviticus time and it is found specifically in Leviticus 18:6-20. Adam and Eve were indeed the only two human beings God first created. So how could they multiply? So their sons and daughters would have had no other choice but to marry and reproduce with their siblings and close relatives. The second generation would have had to marry their cousins, just as after the flood the grandchildren of Noah would have had to intermarry among their cousins. In the early days of humanity, inbreeding has no risk of producing abnormalities due to the fact that the human genetic code then was relatively free of defects. However due to sin and curse, by the time of the generation of Moses, the human genetic code had been polluted enough so that close intermarriage became risky. This is the reason why God commanded against this kind of relationship in Leviticus. This is to avoid the risk of causing genetic abnormalities. Nowadays close intermarriage is definitely not just a sin but unsafe and unwise but unsafe and unwise because of the occurrence of genetic abnormalities.
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
then as what i said before, it is called "INBREEDING" and that will only produce retarded offsprings.... as low quality genes and chromosomes s3x with the low quality genes and chromosomes produces more retarded offsprings as the low quality of cells getting more and more...
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@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
4 Jul 11
even the materials of the Bible itself is made up by elements of Science... if there is no Science, how can they build a bible? Science is also made by God, since all of the things you see 360 degrees are all made by God... even the dress that you are wearing is all the product of science... without science, how can the Spaniards Ferdinand Magellan and Christopher Columbus spread the Christianity for the exchange of Gold? I am a Roman Catholic Faith since birth.... even when you graduated in School, all of the subjects that you already learned all contains the elements of Science, even the subject Religion itself contains Science... even when you graduated in School, you'll be a Bachelor of Science in ---- not a Bachelor of Religion in ---- and not a Bachelor of Bible in ---- even when you are sick, you go to hospital (science) and not in the church for just to pray that the sick will fade because of faith.... how can we prove that it is ok for INBREEDING as commanded by God??? since all of the written script in the bible as made by 40 men having no evidence to support such claim.... i can too make my own version of bible, and not to believe it is also a Blasphemy... and what i wrote too is also guided by the Holy Spirit too.... and about the sin and curse by the time of Moses is also a myth because the only proven evidence is only a word of mouth or only a written text and nothing more... even in the court of law, it is easy to pick up witnesses... but Scientific proven evidence to present will make you win the case.... if you only relying to bible to forced the suspect to enter jail because he committed a sin, the judge, jury, lawyer will only laugh and reject it...
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@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
3 Jul 11
Adam and Eve had to have had many children, but only 3 are named in the bible, Cain, Abel and Seth.
• United States
3 Jul 11
Mantis, where do you get the idea that they were middle eastern people? If the first people came from Africa like many scientist say, then the people who migrated would be effected by evolution. So of course, skin colors would change.
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
3 Jul 11
but Cain, Abel and Seth = three of them looked like a middle eastern people.... they can't produce yellow babies like Chinese.... they can't produce African people... they can't produce Filipino people... they can't produce European people... but they can only produce into INBREEDING Mesopotamian people....
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
4 Jul 11
life of the modern man doesn't start only in Africa... life of the modern man doesn't start only in Middle East (Mesopotamia or Iraq) but... it happened to all 7 continents ....
@allknowing (130088)
• India
3 Jul 11
I am more intrigued by the races - the white race, the yellow race..........How did that happen? And talking about Cane's children it is only now that incest is taboo but it was not so in those days.
@allknowing (130088)
• India
3 Jul 11
Suppose middle eastern couples born elsewhere they will still produce Mesopotamian babies and these babies if they marry others who are middle eastern but born elsewhere will still produce Mesopotamian babies. So how did Cain manage to produce so many different races?
@allknowing (130088)
• India
3 Jul 11
We are in the year 2011 and still questions have remained unanswered and so let them be unanswered. As long as we are guaranteed our daily bread why worry?
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
3 Jul 11
for we all know that middle eastern people in the Mesopotamia produce middle eastern type of babies and not white races or yellow races... no matter what the climatic conditions of earth, for whatever your race, you'll gonna be that race too, maybe your skin color will only change and not the type of your race....
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@RobtheRock (2433)
• United States
3 Jul 11
I've read the different theories. As some myLotters have said, it is proposed that Adam and Eve had other children and that Cain married one of the daughters. I think that God could have made other women. The Adam and Eve story leads to the Jewish race. So God could have created others and this may be in the tales of other groups. It reminds me of the flood. Was Noah the only one who survived? There are other flood stories that shows that there were probably other Noah types. My belief though is that some type of alien is involved. Bruno was burned at the stake for suggesting to the Catholic Church that other "earths" might exist. They could be aliens or a type of angel, but somebody breeded with Adam's daughters. In Genesis 6:2 it says that during Noah's time, the "sons of God" married the "daughters of men" because the daughters of men were "fair." So some other beings were in the mix and probably so when Cain was young. I feel there were other beings because Cain had built a city. You need people to build a city. It could also be that there were other types of men. Scientists tell us about the Neanderthals and the modern humans. Perhaps his wife was a Neanderthal. So there were other types of beings, perhaps the Neanderthals, the modern humans, and the Sons of God (angels or aliens or whomever).
• United States
4 Jul 11
Here's your answer about the Chinese flood. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_(of_China)
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
13 Jul 11
i finally found the link, now i am convinced that flood happened also to China and what i read there is the flood that happened in BCE meaning, before Christ Era.... no need to know the exact date of that flood happens in China as long as BCE is concerned, it all met to a correct explanations.... now i finally conclude there where did the Chinese hide during that event universal flood is again, not covered by the Bible... because during the Universal Flood, Christian bible only covers Noah, and concentrated only in Mesopotamia (now known as Iraq) and never explain China although there are already people living in china who suffers flood too... Asian Continent Universal Flood case solved!!!! Middle East Universal Flood case solved!!!! here is another question: during the time of Noah, does universal flood happens to America (north and south)????
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@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
4 Jul 11
as i am also worrying to where did the Chinese hide themselves during the big flood? since they did not manage to enter's Ark of Noah... but... Chinese is one of the overpopulated people in this planet earth.... and besides, China never suffers a big flood that attacks Noah....
@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
3 Jul 11
Yes, your question does have an answer. This is the problem many Christians & even some Bible Scholars have with their understanding of the Holy Bible. To understand fully what was written & why, one should ideally be at a similar level spiritually to those who wrote or experienced these things in the first place. Failing that, we would be well advised to take a lengthy course in Allegory. It would be well worth your while if you wish to fully understand much of what was written in the Holy Bible. Allegory is not mere symbolism... there is much, much more to it. It is one of the most ancient arts of the written language. Moses was skilled in it, as were many of those who originally wrote many of the books that make up the Holy Bible today. Adam & Eve never actually existed, neither did Kane nor Abel, nor the sacrifices in the literal sense. The story is very very similar to that of Eros and Psyche, and so many others of all Religions. This parable was published to convey very important, but otherwise secret, mystical teachings which out of necessity, needed to be kept from a clever & crafty priesthood, but clothed in seemingly good moral teachings to the unschooled eye so they could be published & proliferated amongst the people. Were the Prophets, then, shedders of blood? God forbid; they dealt not with things material, but with spiritual significations. Their lambs without spot, their pure white doves, their goats, their rams & other sacred creatures, are so many signs and symbols of the various graces and gifts which a mystic people should offer to heaven. Without such sacrifices there is no remission of sin. But when the mystic sense was lost, then carnage followed, the prophets ceased out of the land, and the priests bore rule over the people. Then, when again the voice of the prophets arose, they were forced to speak plainly, & declared, in a language foreign to their method, that the sacrifices of God are not the flesh of bulls or the blood of goats, but holy vows & sacred thanksgivings, their mystical counterparts. As God is a spirit, so also are his sacrifices spiritual. What folly, what ignorance, to offer material flesh and drink to pure power & essential being!
• Adelaide, Australia
3 Jul 11
Thank you for your interest here. You seem to be popping up everywhere! Glad someone reads my posts anyway. There seems to be a bit of labeling or classing going on here. Either one is sorted into the "I am a Christian & I take the Bible literally" camp or you are in the other camp of "the Bible is just myths & legends & should be ignored". I'm neither. If you are going to read & study & practice the good moral teachings recorded in the Holy Bible, then that's fine. If you want to memorize it too, then that's also good. Anyone who has access to a copy of any version & is interested, I would encourage them to read it. You are right - it helps people. I would be careful about summarizing the majority of the Holy Bible under the "myth" category. This can be misinterpreted by many. But who can get much value from something they only read but do not truly understand the intention of those who issued the teachings in the first place? Far too much wickedness & cruelty has been perpetuated by those who should know better than to take these teachings & enforce the apparent or surface principles upon other people or even whole nations & religions. We have seen all throughout Christian history numerous reinforcement by religious leaders of principles such as "it's fine to kill other sentient beings to feed ourselves", "it's OK to step on other's heads to get to the top", "it's right & noble to start a "Holy War" so long as the cause is justified"! This question was not posted in the "Bible" nor "Christian" categories, nor did it specify to use only scriptural support. The topic opener merely wanted an answer to the question, which I have given to the best of my current ability. I really believe this is a very good answer at the moment & should help anyone who has ever asked these questions. Who knows? In a year's time I might look back & say "I really could have given a better response here"!
• Adelaide, Australia
4 Jul 11
Yes, God did make everything in a natural & scientific way - the details can be explained in terms of science, but perhaps a more advanced science than our current scientific laws permit! God can & has created in the blink of an eye. Do you want to see real magic - where something material can be made out of thin air? Go visit India! There are some who really can do that over there today. If you want to know how it is done, they will tell you. Those astronauts who went to the moon did need all those things, because they could not get there any other way to bring back material objects. Spiritual practitioners since the dawn of time have traveled to other worlds very easily - they know there is other life out there, very similar to our own. If you want to go somewhere physically, you need to go within the physical laws; likewise to ascend spiritually, you must go within the universal laws. A physical Satan is an invention of the Catholic Church - it didn't exist at all in the earliest forms of Christianity. Satan can assume almost any form at all - isn't that what they teach?
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
3 Jul 11
you said: "Adam & Eve never actually existed, neither did Kane nor Abel, nor the sacrifices in the literal sense. The story is very very similar to that of Eros and Psyche, and so many others of all Religions." Then, another reasons why the contents in the Bible is majority MYTH.... but it doesn't matter because it only do good things as well as bad, it makes a person knows what is right, a good ethics..... imagine the world life without bible....
• United States
1 Jul 11
I don't think it is a question without an answer, it just has answers that nobody likes and cannot prove anyway. Most likely, "the wife" must have been a monkey. Second best guess is that Eve became his wife when Adam was no longer around or become unable to produce chidren, this is consistent with some old tribal practices. Aliens might actually rank third, and God making him a wife is much lower on the list because He seems a bit of a braggart in Genesis and I don't think He would have left that out.
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
hhmm, wonder why there are still monkeys around... did they failed to evolve into man???
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
corrections: monkeys and modern man both are belongs to a modern species.... even apes belongs to a modern species.... both monkeys, apes and modern man came from the primitive apelike creatures...
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@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
due to lack of education, maybe Adam interpreted monkey as a Third s3x hahahaha but they will only produce a retarded babies, and retarded male s3x with a retarded female produce a double retarded offspring's.... and a double retarded s3x with a double retarded nyahahahahaha if Adam is no longer around, and Cain s3x with Eve, this is called INBREEDING, it is not CROSSBREEDING, another retarded offspring will produce as error increases for every error as a source of seed.... Aliens and Human are not compatible to produce an offspring.... if Aliens is an AMMONIA Based creature... and Humans is a CARBON Based creature... how can it be compatible to have a baby more than a mutant???? meaning, Adam and Eve is just a myth.... the truth is... Australiphiticus first.... then Java Man... then Peking Man... then Cro-Magnon Man... then Neanderthal Man... then a Modern Man.... and go to the nearest American Museum to see the fossils of the pasts, serves as an evidence, to convinced that it is not a myth....
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@JohnRok1 (2051)
2 Jul 11
As a Christian and a scientist I can answer this old chestnut. From your spelling it is apparent that you are more familiar with Orson Welles or Jeffrey Archer than the Bible. If you and other contributors had read the latter properly, you would have noticed Genesis 5v4, which says that Adam begat sons and daughters; which will explain how both Cain (note the spelling)and Seth(I wonder why none of the half-baked sceptics seem to asked about him!) got their wives: They married their sisters (Yes, one contributor considered this, but missed Genesis 5v4), as did all Adam's other sons. So what about this retardation as a result of inbreeding question? Actually, God did not forbid incestuous marriages until the time of Moses (Abraham was married to his half-sister), when that prohibition was included in the list of commandments given to the latter - other civilisations seem to have acquired this prohibition around the same sort of time. Why? Because the deterioration in the gene pool through inbreeding and resultant deterioration in health and lifespan from the time of Noah up to that time was within God's plan, but further rapid deterioration (through inbreeding and, possibly also, environmental factors - actually, we continued to deteriorate, but a lot more slowly, this deterioration now being masked by modern medicine) was not - animals had also deteriorated and this is most noticeable in the reptiles, whose age is reflected throughout life by their size. So why did the lifespan not decrease before the flood? Well, at that time the gene pool was large enough for deterioration not to have any effect on health and lifespan, at least in those whose details Scripture has recorded. But the flood reduced the gene pool to the genes in three brothers and their wives (who would have to have been quite distant cousins for genetic, mitochondrial "Eve" (actually, the common matrilineal ancestor of Mrs Shem, Mrs Ham and Mrs Japheth, who may or may not have been Eve) to have lived so long before genetic, Y-chromosome "Adam" (actually, Noah), as science indicates). This was a massive reduction in the gene pool, and the ensuing deterioration then began to have an effect on health and lifespan. But the inability to answer this question for yourselves is by no means the most serious consequence of not reading your Bible. The eternal destiny of your souls is so much more important, and I would urge you to read it diligently, starting with the Gospel of John and calling upon God to reveal His way of salvation to you.
@JohnRok1 (2051)
4 Jul 11
Mantis, you ask about evidence for the flood being universal. I don't propose to reproduce here the entire gamut of arguments to be found in sound creation science books and websites, but I shall just mention two: 1) Fossils on or near the tops of mountains, and 2) The existence of flood stories in many cultures worldwide. There are some fine authors on creation science out there, and I shall mention a few here: That Australian genius, John MacKay (He attributes the gradual shortening of human lifespan after the flood to environmental factors, whereas I think it's gene pool deterioration - probably both factors play a part); the geneticist and former Cambridge lecturer, Chris Pegington (with similar credentials, both intellectually and spiritually, to those of the evolutionist, Denis Alexander, whose eyes on this subject will be opened in God's good time); and today's foremost exponent of mature creation, P.G.Nelson. Monty White, Stuart Burgess, Andy MacIntosh, Ken Ham, etc. are also worth a look, as are the older contributions of Henry M Morris, H.Enoch, Penn, and Gosse, etc. As regards inbreeding and retardation, I must acknowledge the helpful posts of some contributors, that I hadn't before noticed, but shall add this: All reproduction results in some damage to the gene pool. Inbreeding produces more. Before the flood, because the gene pool was so rich comparatively, no recorded deterioration in health, lifespan or ability resulted. After the flood, deterioration did occur, manifesting itself in decreasing lifespans and, possibly, other, unrecorded deteriorations. It was when further inbreeding would have produced what you have called retardation, that God called a halt on incestuous marriages (in several cultures - ancient Egyptian dynasties seem to have missed out on this moratorium and paid the price).
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
3 Jul 11
in the time before Moses, INBREEDING will not produce retarded offspring???? support your answer..... not in an another myth answer but with a valid reason... but if you said "God permit to s3x bloodline" then it is a myth.... is there any scientific proven evidence that God really said that God has a permission to s3x with a bloodline? that will not produce a retarded offspring?
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
3 Jul 11
you talk about the "FLOOD" show me some Scientific Proven Evidence that "Flood" really covers Earth.... as the son's of Noah will again, from retarded offsprings became another form of retarded offsprings because of INBREEDING.... the people actually deteriorate, but the immune system adopts to the environment, because the people have the will to live..... we are mammals, and mammals adjust according to the environment, we adjust or else a fever might occur for adjustments.... sorry to the dinosaurs because they are cold-blooded animals, they can't adjust to the environment probably as one of the leading cause of their extinction.... lucky for us humans to have a warm-blooded animals.... so the question is: is there really a Flood that covers the entire earth? answer it without using myth..... but a vivid details.....
@Amanda81587 (3042)
• United States
1 Jul 11
Well considering how we are all suppose to be related in some way I am taking it that maybe Adam and eve had more children they did not mention or god did not mention other people that were made. I know the whole bible is like a V.C Andrews book (incest everywhere!)
@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
4 Jul 11
MANTIS: Uh....no. Go back & reread it. It even speaks of Adam & Eve's sons going to another city & finding wives. There's no mention of them being the ONLY people, even in Eden. Just the first. It's really easy to call things a "myth" when you don't bother to do your homework, & it's ultra clear you haven't. I don't think you need to agree with the bible or anyone else, but if you disagree, at lease have the decency to get your facts correct! Maggiepie "(T)he discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny." ~ Edward Gibbon, historian, from "History of the Roman Empire"
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
but according to the myth bible is only Adam and Eve are the only living human creatures.....
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@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
4 Jul 11
therefore, back to my previous suspect, there are already plenty of people living within the 7 continents of earth before the birth of Adam and Eve....
@bird123 (10632)
• United States
2 Jul 11
These are all mere stories. You are supposed to enjoy and accept them. If you start to question, you will discover they are no more than stories. We are all meant to THINK!!! Yes, I can see you are doing just that. Good for you!!
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
3 Jul 11
yet even thou it is only mere stories, but it does do good to your neighbors instead of doing bad....
@andy77e (5156)
• United States
3 Jul 11
Adam and Eve had many children. Not each and ever one was listed.
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
22 Jul 11
possibly, true, that is what i can say.....
• Indonesia
6 Jul 11
Well, this is my version, Adam and Eve have two children : that is two children with male gender and two children female gender -but it's not mentioned!!.Two female is one has beautiful face but one other is ugly.So the center here is Kane and Abel plus one beautiful girl that made them get mad,hahahahaha :D What do you think?
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
6 Jul 11
now i finally concluded that there are already plenty of plenty of people living around in the 7 continents of earth before the birth of Adam and Eve... and no such thing as INBREEDING occurs....
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
1 Jul 11
this is what i said before, hahaha.... starting with a myth therefore the outcome is also a myth.... if air is your source of seed, typhoon Frank is the wages.... and besides, if Kane got a wife (of of the Daughter of Adam and Eve) his sister, then that is called "INBREEDING".... they will only produce a child of a retarded.... no such myth allows that Inbreeding before is allowed by God... there is no myth existing in this world... all is explainable in a natural process but not in myth... therefore, if retarded is the source of seed due to Inbreeding, the Go and Multiply of humans will produce all retarded childrens.... and if you said that this is a question which having no answer... then this is true.... as long as there is no Scientific Proven Evidence to support such claims, it will only remains as a MYTH....
• United States
3 Jul 11
Mantis36, you need to give us statistics. You tremendously beg the question by saying that inbreeding causes retardation. That is not always the case. Not every case of inbreeding leads to retardation. If you gave me a statistical figure like 99% of people who inbreed give us retarded (in your words) children. But that leaves 1% of children who grow up to be healthy adults. But the fact is that 99% is not the statistic -- it is much lower.
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
4 Jul 11
try to marry one of your bloodline now and you will soon found out why....
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
hmmm thats good question.. hmmm i think she came from a broken bamboo. hehehehe
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
what you mean is the Filipino God's and Goddesses before time.... "MALAKAS at si MAGANDA" and their God who created the world and universe is called: "BATHALA" but sad to say.... it's another form of MYTH.....
@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
2 Jul 11
what you mean is the Filipino God's and Goddesses before time.... "MALAKAS at si MAGANDA" and their God who created the world and universe is called: "BATHALA" but sad to say.... it's another form of MYTH.....