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From: lmc@denelcor.UUCP (Lyle McElhaney)
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Subject: Re: Origin of man
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Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 00:23:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  8 00:23:20 1985
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> > > If man descended from Adam and Eve, where did the generations
> > > after their children come from?  Did these early people commit
> > > INCEST?  Or, were there other ancestors of man lurking about?
> > 
> > As I recall (and I don't have a Bible handy so don't quote me on this),
> > the descendents of Adam and Eve mingled with other humans in nearby
> > villages.  In other words, there were already human colonies established
> > elsewhere at the time of Cain and Able.
> > 
> 	I've always wondered about this one too. It says that Cain went
> off and took a wife from some other people. *What* other people ? Were
> there humans lurking around not made by God (or at least the god that
> supposedly made Adam and Eve) ? Kinda blows a whole in creationist theory,
> doesn't it ?

This is probably not relevant, but I saw a booklet in the humor section at
B. Dalton's yesterday concerning someone's cracked science. It was mostly
a waste, but there was a section which showed the (more or less) standard
evolutionary family tree, with branches for all the genii, and on the facing
page a standard family tree with A&E at the top, and their sons below,
mated with women with a ? above them, and the author's new "synthesis",
with the two figures overlapped, the son's wives being supplied from the
evolutionary tree. Maybe he's got something there.
-- 
Lyle McElhaney
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