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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: Origin of man
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Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 09:54:56 EST
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> > Perhaps there are people on this net who can supply me with an
> > answer to my question.
> > 
> > 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 ?
-- 
  

jcpatilla

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