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How does the story of Adam and Eve compatible with science?

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
How so? I do know that humans only have one set of parents, 1 maternal and 1 paternal who are responsible for our dna sequence and coding. It's a stretch, imo, to suggest that worldwide research has "proven" that we all descended from one single man and woman. Although, I'm sure there is a desire for this to be true.
We can trace parts of our DNA to just one man and just one woman. But they did not exist at the same time nor were there ever only two people.
 

IndigoChild5559

Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
I have also found that writing of history is "relatively" new, really only a few thousand years old.
Correct. In fact, the Tanakh is the world's first attempt at writing what we think of as history flowing in a linear fashion. Prior to the Jews, the pagan peoples thought of time as cyclical, not linear. This is because they had an intimate relationship with nature, and nature is cyclical. It's a whole different way of thinking, and to be very honest, it's hard for me to understand that ideation. I'm a typical westerner who from my childhood had teachers that drew timelines on the chalkboard.

Modern historians of course add more criteria for what is well researched history. They base their conclusions on original source documents and archeological finds. Unlike the Jews of old, they do not assume that stories passed on orally can be relied on.
Despite the claim that humans were evolved much before that, and the reason some give is that they didn't "need" to write because they were kind of like nomads...:)
As @Subduction Zone noted in his response to you, written language could not be invented until Civilizations came into existence. As I told you before, the bulk of the 200,000 years homo sapiens have been around, we were hunter gatherers, not city dwellers. You will never find an example of a hunter gatherer tribe that invents written language, because they have no need of it.
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
We can trace parts of our DNA to just one man and just one woman. But they did not exist at the same time nor were there ever only two people.
You know this how about tracing parts of our DNA to just one man and just one woman? By deduction or by actual tracing through predecessors (which I don't think can be done...but anyway, how do you know that part of our DNA can be traced to one man and one woman? (huh?))
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
Some people will believe that writing was invented within the past few thousand years because -- they needed to make contracts, lol. (OK...)
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
You know this how about tracing parts of our DNA to just one man and just one woman? By deduction or by actual tracing through predecessors (which I don't think can be done...but anyway, how do you know that part of our DNA can be traced to one man and one woman? (huh?))
By observation of several factors and then doing the math. You really should understand at least the basics of this by now.

Do you understand that we can observe the mutation rate of genes?
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
By observation of several factors and then doing the math. You really should understand at least the basics of this by now.

Do you understand that we can observe the mutation rate of genes?
In other words, you really can't explain it. But then it must go deeper, right? according to you -- all the way back to old world monkeys -- maybe? by DNA following and why only ONE man and ONE woman when there were so many monkey-types with limbs and brains evolving-- In other words,--
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
That is one example of how we know that people were here a lot longer than the myths of the Bible say.
We've been through this before, haven't we, about testing the elements? I realize that Mr. Shunyadragon considers himself an expert in these matters, but then again I remember that he says humans are not monkeys while you do. So -- have a nice day.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
We've been through this before, haven't we, about testing the elements? I realize that Mr. Shunyadragon considers himself an expert in these matters, but then again I remember that he says humans are not monkeys while you do. So -- have a nice day.
No, he does not like that argument because the ignorant cannot understand it. He seems to have a point there. And yes, were went over testing the elements and you had your rear end handed to you there and you left wearing it as a hat.
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
By observation of several factors and then doing the math. You really should understand at least the basics of this by now.

Do you understand that we can observe the mutation rate of genes?
Can you (I mean, scientists) trace the human race back to one man and one woman as you say, like 200,000 years ago or so? (lolol, sorry I laugh out loud sometimes, no offense meant)
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
No, he does not like that argument because the ignorant cannot understand it. He seems to have a point there. And yes, were went over testing the elements and you had your rear end handed to you there and you left wearing it as a hat.
LOLOL, you made me laugh again -- "he doesn't like that argument..." Love it! Thank you!
 

YoursTrue

Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
History could not exist until after civilization existed.
Oh? really? lol I suppose you will say yes, really. As if nothing happened...before the cave paintings, but -- thanks for the laugh. Maybe we'll talk another time. Bye for now...
 

Hockeycowboy

Witness for Jehovah
Premium Member
300.000+ years of documented human history in Africa and the Levant is relatively young compared to an earth and universe billions of years old.
Documented?
Writing, as in documents, has only been around for 6,000+ years.

So… guessing.

If you’re referring to dating techniques… Let me ask you this (please, bear with me): if as the Bible states, there was a water-vapor-ice canopy existing in the Earth’s outer atmosphere, it would absorb (and possibly deflect) much of the Sun’s cosmic rays, wouldn’t it?

Which would in turn affect the decay rates of certain isotopes, thereby altering known rates of isotope degradation.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Documented?
Writing, as in documents, has only been around for 6,000+ years.

So… guessing.

If you’re referring to dating techniques… Let me ask you this (please, bear with me): if as the Bible states, there was a water-vapor-ice canopy existing in the Earth’s outer atmosphere, it would absorb (and possibly deflect) much of the Sun’s cosmic rays, wouldn’t it?

Which would in turn affect the decay rates of certain isotopes, thereby altering known rates of isotope degradation.
Nope. In fact your idea makes it even worse for you. Think about it.
 
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