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Are We All Related
Because every single human came from parents.So the first two humans two have kids,had kids then it keeps going and going and going up too now so did we all come from the same Greatx45678 grandma and grandpa?
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Technically we are, but they only count up to 4ths I think.
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One assumes that the "first two humans" idea only really works if you believe in biblical accounts, and even those don't imply that "Adam and Eve" were the -ONLY- original humans, just the very first ones. With Cain and Abel, when Cain is cast out, he goes and lives among other people who already existed.
I'd think it most logical that a number of beings all became the species we identify as being humans together at around the same time, and everyone could be descended from them, but I don't believe one single pair exists far enough back from which came all of humanity. |
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That would be creepy, but a nice theory.
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In my science class, I learned that all living things are related in some way. The only explanation the teacher gave had something to do with DNA and how everything developed from common ancestors and such.
Biology is definitely not my forte. |
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With how many generations we've gone through, I'd think people would start making pretty large groups of who were related, even if these groups are invisible to us. They would keep getting bigger and combining until they were all one. Even if we started with 100 people, I'd think they'd almost be guaranteed to have all been mixed together somewhere along the road by now, so I think we're all related.
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related != interrelated
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Everybody in this thread shut up and go read The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins if you haven't already.
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Sure, we are all carbon-based.
Actually the real point of this post is, Carbo go listen to some good Squarepusher. |
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"Good" Squarepusher? I assume my last.fm feed was chock-full of Squarepusher at the time you read my post. Are you implying that Hello Everything is not a good album? Surely while not his best, it's still great.
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F*ck your God. Gaia hypothesis ftw. |
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My logic may be flawed on this topic, but here's my point of view.
From the Bible standpoint, we are all descendants of Adam and Eve, so we all must be related in some way. From the Evolutionist standpoint, one single cell started all the life on earth by first multiplying itself, so we must be related in some way. Though, as someone else said, the relationships are too distant to even be considered. |
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I heard a rumor that if people with too similiar DNA were to reproduce, the offspring would be incomplete/retarded. If thats the Case after Adam and Eve's generation wouldve been the only one legit. Religious theory isnt too logical...
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Don't confuse the idea that Adam and Eve were the -first- humans with the idea that all humans necessarily descended from Adam and Eve.
Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. When Cain was cast out, the implication is quite strong that there were plenty of other humans already alive out in the world that weren't direct descendants of Adam and Eve: Quote:
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Hey.... brother. :)
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In biblical views we all are, but are ancestors were sepperated when they tried to reach God by the Tower of Babylon.
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I made out with my 3rd cousin once.
Actually i was more than once. Yeah like 100 times. So the idea doesn't weird me out at all. |
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So far, the only explanations I've heard are that Adam and Eve had many more sons and daughters that the Bible doesn't mention (how convenient) or that God created other populations of humans that the Bible doesn't mention (again, how convenient). Or it could be that Genesis was an figurative oral retelling of how the Hebrews came to be that had been past down from generation to generation. You know, the story about a small monotheistic tribe of nomadic desert dwellers managed to populate itself through interbreeding. Don't get me wrong, but these people thought the world was flat and that stars were holes in the heavens, I wouldn't take their word on how it is the Earth, the Universe and everything came to be. |
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