you'll make the fundies heads explode.

I asked a JW about this; she said "their DNA was different then".

"After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters."

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+5%3A4&version=NIV

Clearly I skipped too much Sunday school; I had to look up "Seth" too.

Que heads exploding.

and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the East of Eden. And Cain knew his wife!” Where the hell did she come from?
BRADY
Who?
DRUMMOND
Mrs. Cain. Cain’s wife. If, “In the beginning” there were only Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel, where’d this extra woman spring from? Ever figure that out?
BRADY
(Cool)
No, sir. I will leave the agnostics to hunt for her.
(Laughter)
DRUMMOND
Never bothered you?
BRADY
Never bothered me.
DRUMMOND
Never tried to find out?
BRADY
No.
DRUMMOND
Figure somebody pulled off another creation, over in the next county?
BRADY
The Bible satisfies me, it is enough

From:
INHERIT THE WIND, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Adam and Eve had a bunch of children, although only 2 of them were worth writing about and that only because one killed the other. Those unnamed children then mated with people from the Land of Nod. It never mentions where the people of Nod came from, however.

I have another question - in Genesis 1 it says that God created animals and then created man. In Genesis 2, it says that God created Man and then created animals.

There are many metaphors in The Bible which make sense if you read them as a metaphor.

As a literal reading, there are simply too many contradictions. And I am not talking about a "couple of" contradictions, I'm talking about many, many MAJOR contradictions.

the north and the south... and in each kingdom a writer wrote a their own version of the bible stories, each favoring their own kingdom. There were many similarities in the basic stories, but also many differences. Some later writer/editor, rather than choose one version or the other as the true story, put the two versions together, that's why there are 2 versions of every story in the old testament

which meant there were actually 3 authors.

Regardless, the Genesis story can only be taken seriously as a metaphor. As a literal interpretation, it contradicts itself and fails miserably.

"Noun:

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, esp. something abstract."

I still don't get it. It sounds more like just making crap up than actual metaphor.

Shit just appears out of no where with little or no explanation.

One story makes it seem like A&E are all the people there are.

The other - not so much.

Cain murdered his brother, then must have boinked his mother, making Cain the first motherfucker (in fact, he invented it). If Eve then had a daughter by Cain, he probably raped his daughter/sister, to have a son or daughter... wait would they also be a grandson or granddaugter? confusing...
In various combinations of his inbred progeny enough people came into existence to eventually divide into different cities and countries and then invent war.

I think Cain also was the founder of the republican party.

Of course, that combined with the assertion that the bible should be taken literally is a recipe for Harry Mudd.

And if those who take the Bible literally can explain it. It would be a good question for a Republican debate.

How many millenia did God contemplate by Himself that something was worth creating or needed?

...largely agree where you're going with it. However, they actually mention three sons in the bible. Cain, Abel and Seth.

- What's more miraculous about Seth is that his Dad was 130 when he knocked Eve up!

God destroys it all with a flood, and all the animals were created from two samples of each species (*came on the boat with Noah and family) But this time God wanted a larger gene pool, and the eight people who came along for the ride (or clean up shit) Noah & and wife. and his three sons and their wives.

What was decontaminating the gene pool? Nephilim. From mount Olympus...They rebelled against their father, Uranus. Oh wait...

That means there would have to have been approximately 30 times more water on this planet than there was previous to the flood, and that number is also thought to be nine times more water that is to be found in our entire solar system.

Where did that water come from, and why isn't it still here?

Just because Adam and Eve were the only humans in the garden of Eden doesn't not mean that they were the only humans.

Not that I believe any of this crap, just saying.

which most people can't answer. Did god create man, or did man create god??

I read this in my intro religion course, Nature and Function of Religion.

Freud said that man created god to serve his psychological needs for a protector daddy.

Feuerbach said that god is the outward projection of man's inner nature.

However, neither of them said that god created man.

Man created God. Gods actually, as there have literally been thousands of them imagined. And Man will continue to create Gods for as long as there are mysteries he cannot understand and lacks the courage to attempt to explain. Assigning anything to "God" is the ultimate copout. It's not only an admission of ignorance, it's a declaration that one intends to remain so.

We can be better than this if we would only stop being afraid and TRY.

After Seth, Adam lived 800 years, or so says the bible.

In Genesis, the Sons of God married the daughters of men. Who were these? The bible is quiet. Some have said, the boys Schtupped their sisters.

But since all of Genesis is a myth, it hardly matters.

According to Greeks, Zeus schtupped women by turning into a goose, by becoming a rain of gold, and occasionally the old fashioned way.

Myth is myth. Amazing things happen, like in Harry Potter.

Abel caught him with the sheep trying to create a new kind of human (My guess is that Abel was just pissy that his favorite ewe was cheating on him)




It has to be true, I read it in a book once














at least I think I did.

And Abel gave up his "wife" to god in the first sacrifice.

Cain: "...How the hell do I get my plants to do that so I can offer a similar sacrifice? My stupid Bro is a cheater!"