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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
the thing that i never understood is that if someone believes Adam and Eve to be a true story, how do they handle the fact that we would all be inbreds then?
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If you take a liberal reading of the Bible then you can view the Adam and Eve story as a myth about people's struggle against human nature or that God created more than just Adam and Eve or some such.
If you adhere to a literal reading with every word having to be 100% true then you have to invoke other things.. I've heard stuff preached such as the genetic code was perfect then and only became corrupted due to sin and that took time so the first generations didn't have to worry about that. Of course that doesn't cover the same problem after a global flood, so I've also heard it preached that there was a shell of metallic hydrogen around the earth holding up (or in, I forget) the water for the flood and that blocked out cosmic radiation so there was no inbreeding problem, or something like that. Basically the answer is "make stuff up because the Bible is infallible so any unanswered questions don't need a real answer because the Bible is right anyway".