Bible Study Adam and Eve

[Godslove1603]

I know this is probably stupid, but I was wondering...If Adam and Eve were the first people on earth, and they had children, how did their children find a husband or wife in order to reproduce? (since God does not approve on marrying family members?) LIke I said, it's probably stupid but I was wondering your guy's take on this. Thanks! :

 

[MrsC]

The restriction against marrying a relative did not come until much much later, when God gave the Law to Moses. Genetically speaking, it was not dangerous to marry relatives at first because the gene pool had not yet accumulated mutations. Eventually this would become a problem, but not until much later. We have trouble accepting this because of the social taboo that has accompanied this restriction, but this taboo was not known to early man.

 

[Khristeeanos]

Good answer, MrsC.

 

[peace4all]

Mrs c, I find your answer very interesting. Do you have a link in which you can support that? with my little knowledge of mutations, i would think that they are BETTER than with out. hence the reason that we have sex with other people, because they have had more mutations than we have. (altaest my understandign of it)

 

[Khristeeanos]

Mrs c, I find your answer very interesting. Do you have a link in which you can support that? with my little knowledge of mutations, i would think that they are BETTER than with out. hence the reason that we have sex with other people, because they have had more mutations than we have. (at least my understandign of it)

I guess what MrsC was trying to say is that if God created two humans, neither of them would have mutations in their genes.

So they would be perfect and so would their kids. Mutations wouldn't come until later on.

 

[KnarfKS]

Mrs c, I find your answer very interesting. Do you have a link in which you can support that? with my little knowledge of mutations, i would think that they are BETTER than with out. hence the reason that we have sex with other people, because they have had more mutations than we have. (altaest my understandign of it)

It mostly depends whether the mutations are beneficial or not. But mutations are usually bad. We don't marry outside of our family to gain mutations, it is to limit the chance of non-dominant hereditary disease. non-dominant diseases require that both parents give their kid the same type of mutation to give the kid the disease, people who are related probably have similar genes, therefore inbreeding increases the chance of having 2 of the same bad gene that is only effective in pairs, but not alone.

Statistically it is unlikely that the mutations within the genes would have done anything anyway. Within DNA only 10% of all of the "data" is useful, and the other 90% just has to be there to take up space basically. So maybe one in 10 mutations might possibly make a slight difference and have an effect. And within hereditary diseases there usually has to be many mutations within useful "data" of the DNA. This is probably why it took a while to have the effects of mutations. This is also why it is bad to inbreed now, too many pieces of DNA are too similar and the nondominant diseases are given too great of a chance to take effect.

I hated all of my biology classes, but it actually came in handy thinking about this. :-D

 

[MrsC]

peace4all:

Here is a link:
http://www.icr.org/pubs/btg-a/btg-059a.htm

I highly recommend this organization and their materials, the Institute for Creation Research.

 

[StillSmallVoice]

Hey all this is my first pot here and i was just wanting to put my thoughts in this i think that god created man and then created adam and eve because it says later on in genesis that cain went and married the daughters of men so if there were no other ppl how did he mary her and i dont think that they had a girl because the bible would have told us.

 

[trust_faith]

The restriction against marrying a relative did not come until much much later, when God gave the Law to Moses. Genetically speaking, it was not dangerous to marry relatives at first because the gene pool had not yet accumulated mutations. Eventually this would become a problem, but not until much later. We have trouble accepting this because of the social taboo that has accompanied this restriction, but this taboo was not known to early man.

yeah. I agree to what you say. and this is my answer to your question too.. That time, marrying a relative is ok... and at that time genes are not so complicated as now... what mutations all that...