It would take more than just two people to populate the Earth:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160113-could-just-two-people-repopulate-earth

"It would take more than just two people to populate the Earth"

So, Adam & Eve coulda had a three-way with Steve?

only if steve was another girl.

"only if steve was another girl."

Like Caitlyn Jenner?

caitlyn jenner is unable to procreate.

Maybe they were aliens!??? If they were human, eventually Eve would get tired of being pregnant all the time.....

Don't forget that Adam was banging Lilith before he had Eve.

The first man was also the first plyg, apparently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith

Wasn't she in "True Blood"!??

Yes, in all her full frontal nudity splendor - well, except that she was totally drenched in blood.

isn't genetic 'eve' much younger than genetic 'adam'? if so, perhaps all the tales of lilith are not so far fetched.

Maybe 'our' eve of the garden mated with a man carrying much, much older Y chromosome from original 'adam'.

just a thought.

Don't forget the Nephilim who were mating with women in Genesis to interbreed.

They were space travelers and giants from another place and time.

Eve was seduced by the serpent in the Garden of Eden before she seduced Adam.

I always felt that the apple was just a synonym for sex as it was the "forbidden fruit." There are those who take it literally, but honestly what's the worst thing that can come from eating an apple? You might bite into a worm, but it doesn't copulate.

This is a fatal flaw in Mormon doctrine. Without Adam and Eve and the fall, the whole gospel falls apart.

I can't believe modern Americans actually take the Bible as literal. The Flood, the Creation story, Jonah, Balaam's ass, etc. all cannot be taken literal. How did Joshua stop the sun when the Earth revolves around it? If he did stop the Earth from rotating, the winds would stop and the tides would be devastating. Even at BYU, our professors described Job as an allegory and not an actual event.

Every culture has its creation myth, and Adam & Eve are just the Hebrew one, passed down to Christianity and Islam. Anyone who thinks that women were created from Adam's rib or that the Earth is 6,000 years old has his head in the sand.

In the sand, or inside their own posterior.

I don't take the bible literally either but most study materials I've used state that Adam and Eve myth is the beginning of the Hebrew people. There were plenty of other people down the way for Adam&Eve's children to marry.

It can't fall apart, it never came together. What we have is a bunch of people standing around telling each other they can see a building that isn't there.

Not only started by Adam and Eve, but started over again after Noah etc..

perky Wrote:
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> Not only started by Adam and Eve, but started over
> again after Noah etc..

Which, if it were true, would mean ever male got their Y
chromosome from Noah. Which means every male would have the
same Y chromosome.

All things are possible with God!!!!!!!

/end sarcasm

This article is a good reminder of some of the benefits that interracial marriage can bring to the human race.

Make that "interracial parenting", not "interracial marriage", as I wrote that too hurriedly. Sure a lot of couples that have children together are those who entered into a legal contract called "marriage" via some government office. But according to my high school biology textbook that's not how babies are made ;)

Thank you! I was happy to do my part.

It was also my pleasure to help the human race.

Much, much, pleasure.

Well that destroyed my teenage fantasy of some cataclysmic event happening. Then me and the girl I am crushing on being the only surviving people(so she has to like me) and repopulating the earth.

I have that same fantasy except I always brought 10 or so ther friends so it wouldn't get to incesty. It's so embarrassingly romantic.

The British Prime Minister is called 'THE FIRST MINISTER' but he wasn't the first.

Adam is called 'THE FIRST MAN' but he wasn't the first.

so the first lady is not the first ?

And the First Presidency obviously had no predecessors.

copolt Wrote:
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> The British Prime Minister is called 'THE FIRST
> MINISTER' but he wasn't the first.
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> Adam is called 'THE FIRST MAN' but he wasn't the
> first.

He wasn't any. It's a myth. As in made-up. Not real. Fictional.

Okay everyone this is a classic case of populations genetics. The model we used to understand it is called Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium.

Here's a little light reading on the subject to help you out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy%E2%80%93Weinberg_principle

What you didn't follow all of that? Okay here's the cliff notes: Hardy-Weinberg formula is the theoretical constant for keeping a population allele frequency stable. Since this does not occur in nature (even if slow, allele frequencies are constantly changing), expansions from the concept are used to calculate the rate of change in frequencies.

What's causes a change in allele frequency? A selection force like natural, sexual, environmental, or isolation. So in essence Hardy-Weinberg is used to calculate the rate of evolution.

So why in the hell did I bring this up?

A drastic reduction in the number of reproducing individuals is called a bottleneck. Bottlenecks radically alter the genetic makeup of the population as you can imagine.

Reducing the population down to two individuals is as extreme of bottleneck as it gets. Future generations will have a much higher risk of of a few negative recessive alleles. However in time the constant rate of mutation will create broad genetic diversity. Odds are that this diversity will look very different than what we see today.

There is a very high risk of failure in the early generations, say the first 100 or so. There will be very little genetic diversity to adapt to a new pathogen or other environment. Breeding rates will suffer due higher levels of miscarriage and those born with defects. In time mutation will add in enough diversity to lessen the risk but until it reaches that point you have a high rate of failure.

This is why they come up with the minimum numbers of individual. This is where the statistical odds of success are the best.

Even the "Lost Book of Enki" translated by Stichin speaks of multiple clonings to create the species.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/early-human-population-size-genetic-diversity/

(Note: R-rated ;-) )

"New genetic findings suggest that early humans living about one million years ago were extremely close to extinction."

That was, of course, after Gawd quit experimenting and got down to the real business of the creation of "man" or, at least, the "man Adam."

Brigham taught that Adam came to this world with his wives.

See.....modern revelation once again is proven true.

Well, if you have a fertile span of several hundred years and so do your kids...