If Adam and Eve were the first people on earth, then how come we don't all look alike?
360135
Hmmmm....that's a very good question. Do you know that I asked myself and even friends about the same questions before? In my 30's now, it didn't bother me no more. I just let it go because once you start asking that question, conversations/debates just go in circles!\n I happen to believe that there is God, that no religion could save ones soul but your faith in the Lord. Since "Adam & Eve" are in the bible, religious and not religious alike would debate about this issue over and over again even after I die...\n I'll see what others think and it would be nice to know about their feelings about the question you have...
525068
Eve was created from the rib of Adam. Same genetic material. So, in terms of genetics Adam and Eve were brother and sister. The tale I've heard repeated most often for the different races and blood types was the story of the Tower of Babylon and how when God punished man for trying to build the Tower to heaven God banished mankind to the 4 corners of the world and when he did this he cursed them not to speak the same language. Part of this tale was that God altered their appearance so they'd appear as strangers to each other. When he did this we ended up with the different races and that lead to the differing blood types as well.
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God started by creating Adam and Eve who were the first to begin procreating. They were having sons who were marrying wives after settling in other areas. Nowhere does it say Adam and Eve were the ONLY humans God created. He created wives for Adam and Eve's Sons.\nWhat you're suggesting makes no sense. If any human or animal or creature attempts to mate with the wrong species, even if successful at it, the progeny end up sterile.\nIt's pretty clear from Genesis Chapters 4 and 5 that Eve was not mating with her sons.\n***\nAs for the sister theory it doesn't work either because Genesis gives a sequential account of who Eve was giving birth to. There were no sisters yet for Cain.\n***\nI'm using a New American Standard version which is considered the to be the most scholarly accurate as far as I know and it's a bit different from what you wrote:\n5:1 - This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.\n2 - He created THEM male and female, and he blessed them and named THEM Man in the day when they were created.\n\nThere is no account of incest of any kind. God created wives for Adam's sons separately.
358184
He created Adam in his image, not us.  We are the results of hundreds of centuries of genetic variations.  If you study biology and human reproduction, you can see how He set this up so that we didn't end up all looking the same.
1125363
No one knows when, where or how human life began on this planet. It's all speculation. Some of the theories are based on scientific evidence, but everyone knows that they are just possible scenarios and full of gaps.\nSomeone lied to you by saying that "white people were allways apriciated" and that "black people...were the "sclaves" of white people. It just nonsense that racists use to assert that black people are sub-human or animals. \nIf you believe that Adam and Eve were the first humans ever, and that God created them, and we are all direct descendants, and no other humans can or have ever existed on this planet; then you're basically screwed because nothing in life will ever make sense.
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As you can see, the people who answered this question don't get what you asked.\n\nIf adam and eve were real, the intercourse between them would have been fine, but the intercourse between their children wouldn't have.\n\nFurthermore, it is enirely impossible for a species to have been wholey propogated from two individuals.  The resultant inbreeding would have extinguished the species.  Or, at least, they'd be too retarded to even know how to breed.
338600
Adam was the 1st man.\nEve was the 1st woman.\nJinns and dinosaurs were the 1st creatures.
81931
Am I the only one bold enough to say this? ADAM AND EVE WERE NOT REAL. Study human evolution and you will better understand where we all came from and why we are hairless and other things as well. Adam and Eve were a construct designed to explain the unexpainable back before we had the means to figure out the truth. Thats what religion is. Sad but true. Not saying there is no God, but religion is mostly just stories put together over our history to explain things as we began to wonder but stilllacked the technology to answer ourselves. Now we do!
204931
First of all, God created us to be like apes, preferably chimps. Second of all, maybe he thought they looked like one of his best creations, so he made us to be be like them.
363668
We didn't come from apes. Apes and humans have a common simian ancestor, but the species evolved separately.
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bcs whom put thats they were dont believe in God/Allah and thats their silly way to say thats there is no God ...\n\nbut the truth there is God and we can prove thats bcs whom were first is ADAM and EVE ...and they were human look like us now ...but the only diffrent thats they were more tall and they were live for more years could reach for 1000 years ...\n\nGod/Allah bless u
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If you believe the Old Testament, Adam was created in God's image by God. No one gave birth to him. That explanation works for fundamentalist Jews, Christians and Muslims. The Buddhists and Hindus must have an explanation too, but I don't know what it is.\n\nIf you believe evolution, which 99% of all biologists believe, an almost-human gave birth to the first human.\n\nTake your pick.
625513
Try reading John Milton's book, Paradise Lost...it will clear up all of your "first people on earth" questions.
1047307
The Bible never explicitly says where the Garden of Eden was, but geographic hints in the text suggest somewhere in Southwest Asia (modern-day Iraq).\n\nThis makes sense, since the first cities and the first human civilization started in that region (what the Greeks called Mesopotamia, the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers).\n\nBut, it appears that humans did not originate there.  We only built our first cities there and our first state-level societies originated there.\n\nScientists who study human origins have developed a strong case that modern humans first appeared in Eastern Africa.  Why do they think this?  The fossil record for early humans goes back much farther in Eastern Africa than anywhere else in the world:  In fact, proto-human fossils can be found there that link with the common ancestor we share with Chimpanzees.\n\nAs far as "normal color", please bear in mind that race has very little to do with skin color:  Ethnic variation is more than skin deep:  Anthropologists can tell the difference between a East Asian skull and an African one, or even a Native American tooth from a European one.\n\nSkin color is a superficial difference that has a simple explanation:  The SUN.  Human populations who have lived for thousands of years in regions with intense and direct sunlight have evolved more MELANIN, a sun-absorbing protein, in their skin.  Melanin is like natural sunblock, and it makes your skin darker.\n\nEuropeans are descended from nomadic tribes that wandered in some of the most sunless and desolate places on earth during the last Ice Age.  Without sunlight penetrating the skin, the body cannot create Vitamin D.  Without vitamins or fortified milk to drink, they literally became sick.  Those with lighter skin had an advantage and the population very quickly lost much of the melanin in their bodies:  They lost it in their skin (white skin), their hair (blonde or red hair), and even in their eyes (blue eyes are the result of very little melanin in the iris).\n\nNature has not decreed a "normal" skin color.  Evolution is relentlessly practical:  The best skin color is the one that works best for the local environment.\n\nIn our modern era of sunblock, indoor living, heavy clothing, and vitamin-enriched food, skin color has no meaning except to help indicate where most of your ancestors came from.\n\nA few words about the Bible:  Surgery was performed by human beings THOUSANDS of years before the Bible was written.  We know this because we find skeletons quite often with evidence of dental surgery, skull trepanning (drilling holes in the skull to relieve fluid pressure on the brain), and we also find other kinds of evidence of other surgical procedures.\n\nAs far as "scheduling", just take a look at Stonehenge:  This was built about 10,000 YEARS before the Bible was written and it is essentially a religious ceremonial site that also happens to be an accurate calendar (the ancient Celts were great astronomers and they sighted certain stars by means of those big stones and could therefore predict seasonal changes).\n\nI could go on and on, but I have to end by making a point about the gay thing:  Yes, male and female exist for a reason and that reason has EVERYTHING to do with reproduction.  So, when heterosexuals have sex while using birth control, they are also committing an unnatural act -- according to your logic.  It is also "horrible" for a sterile woman or an infertile man to have sex with anyone.\n\nI think it is clear that YOU are the one "asking questions that will only raise more and still never gets it".
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I would ask you to pull out the Bible that it appears you're already a little familiar with. Notice. It does NOT say that Adam and Eve were the ONLY people God created, just the first. Two points:\n\nA) Cain took a wife after he killed Abel... Hmm... The only woman on Earth at the time that the Bible tells about is Eve... Where did he get his wife? (God made other individuals elsewhere).\n\nB) When God banished Cain from the garden, he said that people would surely find him and kill him, wherever he went... If his mom and dad and brothers and sisters were the only people God had created, what was he afraid of???\n\nTo your second notion, the Ages... The Bible REPEATEDLY says that God's time is not like our time and that a second to God could be a million years here on Earth. Isaiah is the best example. "My ways are not like the ways of man." Meaning, simply, that God doesn't operate the same way we do.\n\nIn summation, it is quite simple for Christians to believe in both Creation and Evolution... You just have to be willing to do your homework...
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Yes we branched off from their line over 2 million years ago so there should be considerable variations  (we walk erect).  At some point in history human hair may have been a way to attract members of the opposite sex (you forgot that males have long hair too).\n\nEvolution is not that quick to say that we are from apes, apes and us are from the same tree jsut as we are from the same evolutionary tree as all other mammals.  we just broke off from others at different times in the history of the earth.
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Probably the "God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve" one.  This argument totally overlooks the fact that God created hermaphrodites.  And anyone who believes that God creates humans, will have to agree that God created hermaphrodites, because they were born that way.  So obviously the Adam and Eve story does not cover all the people that God created.