And with the parents of Cain and whichever sister he married having had perfect DNA, the incest taboo would not have applied. We need to be careful not to judge their situation from the viewpoint of our 21st-century western sensitivities.
As much as I agree, the Church insists that we came from 2 original parents due to the teaching of original sin and all that comes with that.
They were the only people on the planet.
You’re kidding. Isn’t that wrong?
Read post #3.
You’re kidding. Isn’t that wrong?
I doubt if we will ever really know the answer to that question. The truth is hidden in the ancient mists of time. Someday, with the Grace of God we may be able to find out.
If you go back far enough in our population history, there were lots of women who are the ancestors of every human being on Earth. The most recent of these is estimated to have lived a few thousand years ago. And her mother would also have been the ancestor of all humans on earth. And her grandmothers, her great grandmothers, and so on.
Hi Helen Rose: I agree with your post. I would like to add that ancient peoples did not think in the same way as we to in our day and age. What they were one a way trying to do is express an idea of how we came about; the origin of humans in which they did not know anything about science, among other things they wanted to relate concerning mans past and why there were suffering etc. as well as how cities came to be. There can I think be many interpretations about what was written there is not hard line insofar as how God made everything animals, plants and humans. We are in the image and likeness of God but does that mean what we look like or maybe our souls? No one knows or will ever know how God created as it will always be beyond our comprehension. What we can do is try to understand what the passage tell us in how we might live a better life.
I don’t get it - are you saying the fields of archaeology and paleontology are so utterly flawed that a consensus of studies of cultures on all parts of the globe have mistakenly found there to be extant cultures on 6 continents 10,000 years ago when in fact there were none at all?
The “opinion” of actual opinionated “scientists” is just that.
Josephus states that God cast Cain together with his wife, out of the land. Does Josephus say where Cain got his wife from? No. It can only be implied. Cain’s wife was one of his many sisters. Is this bad? Is this evil?
An earlier post said there were millions of homo sapiens on earth then.
Not all opinions are equal. Do you think, for example, in a court of law, the consensus opinion of 100 medical doctors should be considered equal to the opinion of an auto-mechanic when it comes to the workings of the human body?
I’m not talking about “Ancient Aliens” on the History Channel, I’m talking about scholarly consensus. If you think the whole of archaeology and paleontology are comparable to conspiracy theories on the History Channel, I would suggest your perception of the matter is very misinformed.An earlier post said there were millions of homo sapiens on earth then.
I don’t distrust responsible scholars but those aren’t the ones who usually get boosted on the History Channel, and anyway, most of the people who promote novelties are journalists, not scholars. A journalist who wants to sell his articles will skip over 9 examples of cautious, genuine scholarly evidence, none of which will get him published, and focus on one scholar, often taking him out of context, to “prove” that A)Jesus was married to Mary Magdalen, who was a bishop; B)the Air Force is hiding alien corpses and crashed space ships; C) doctor’s new diet plan means you can eat like a pig and get skinny. D)etc.
Chesterton was a journalist, and he knew how wildly the media and some scholars could build a mountain of conjecture on an ounce of evidence. My academic experience suggests to me that any kind of name exposure, getting quoted assists an academic career.
Chesterton was heavily endorsed by skeptics such as Martin Gardner, who disagreed with his religious views, but honored his common sense and insights. Chesterton’s skepticism is sorely lacking in today’s media driven society.