Originally posted by: lirion
Originally posted by: Flyermax2k3
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
If you subscribe to the Adam and Eve theory there has been a whole lot of incest from the very beginning.
If you follow evolutionary theory, though, you are still stuck with the fact that mankind has always been tribal. In the past the tribes were small and the oportunity to mate outside it small. Lots of incestual lovin' to grow the tribe went on, I bet.
LOL, have you ever actually read the book of Genesis? If not, please read the creation story and then come back and tell me where it says Adam and Eve's children were incestual. If you can even quote a passage where it implies incest, I'd like to see it. This is a common misconception held by those who have never actually read the Bible, or when they did, did so with little interest and thus did not receive the wisdom contained therein.
Once having read the creation story from the book of Genesis, you'll notice that after Eve bears Cain and Abel, Cain is banished to the land of Nod to live *where he then got married*. So after Adam and Eve conceived two children, there were already people living in other parts of the world. I see no mention of Adam and Eve having thousands of children who left home and settled in different lands.
I'm not into the bible thing, so maybe I'm missing something here, but there are several passages stating that all of mankind descended through Adam. The doctrine of the orginial sin, and therefore the ransom also, hinge upon this. If you're going to accept Christianity, then I guess you get the Cain's wife = incest thing for free, at least as far as I can tell.
If you still don't buy it, then after the flood when all that was left was Noah and his family, you have to accept that Noah's grandchildren had relations with either their siblings, or their cousins, or that Noah's family were swingers, taking turns with each other so as to produce offspring that were not related. It doesn't look good any way you slice it.