Adam and Eve were the first human beings on the face of this Earth. from them spread humanity.but i have always had this thing in mind. if people were born of them, then that means they were brothers and sisters. why did God allow incest in the early humans? why he banned it afterwards? why didn’t he create another pair of humans so humanity could spread from two separate branches, and thus there would not have been any incest from the start? he is God after all. it would not have been very hard for him to create another pair of humans.
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adam and eve is a fable. an allegory at best. used to explain human origins before evolution was understood. and like you point out, the fable is full of holes. how can one couple's kids be of all the distinct races of humans? why don't we all have the same mitochondrial DNA if indeed we all have a common single female ancestor?
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you are talking in a scientific way. most of the people who believe in this fable are convinced they were real people.
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Queer, many of us are not too thrilled with the idea that our grandfather was a gorilla.....may b u r and that's ur choice if thats the case..
Different races is due to gradual effects of the living environment in various parts of the world......those living closer to the equator r darker and those closer to the poles r lighter skinned and so on.....evolution to this degree is accepted by all and undisputed fact agreed by all.....
Our DNA design and parameters r exactly the same.....that suggests quite clearly that the origin and the designer is one......the variation within the design which makes each one of us special is because of the complex mix that formulates DNA.......I will touch on what the Islamic perspective on this is and tht shud answer u......u r still welcome to reject it or laugh it off or whatever makes u feel happy.....
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Jaanaan, there r several traditions from Ahlulbayt who told us that there was never any incest but there were female or females sent by Allah for the children of Adam to help continue the human lineage....
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Adam and Eve story is part of ab******c faith. it is a story and should be taken as that.
More than half of the world has never heard about this story and have their own interpretation of the human origins.
If i started believing in half the stories i was told then i would be living in an unreal world.
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^ I didn't know that the number of Muslims + Christians + Jews doesn't make it to the half of the population of the world.
@ Janaan. Everytime a Twin (consisting of a boy and a girl) were born. Each Twin was born in a different way (Allah (swt) knows how), making that pair different than the other twin. A person couldn't marry with his/her own twin brother/sister but was allowed to marry the person of opposite gender from another twin born at another time.
The fight between Haabil and Qaabil was due to this fact that Qabil was only allowed to marry Haabil's sister and vice versa. But Qaabil thought that His own sister was more beautiful that Haabil's and hence....he got jealous.
^ The version I have heard. Might be incorrect.
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Just because they were created first but that doesnt mean they were the only ones....there was probably a second batch.
But no one remembers the seconds do they...only the ones who come first! :)
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we only detest negatives since Allah has forbidden them
in true faithlessness eating your youngs ones is bad?
did anyone see the chinese child accident and subsequent ignorance by the passers by?
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This (i.e., Adam/Eve were first people on this earth) is a false biblical story. Quran doesn't support this. Instead, according to Quran, Adam was the "first person" to receive revelation from Allah. In Quran (Chapter 2 Verse 37-39) where it mentions about Adam and Eve, it also mentions in plural (Jammia)l. Which means there were other people/tribes at that time that were once living in harmony, but when they didn't obey commandments of God, they were thrown out of that harmony (jannat).
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According to some reports, we share half our genes with a banana (New Scientist, 1 July 2000, pp4-5)! ! Is this evidence for a common origin?
So I conclude that we all owe our existence to banana somehow.
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^ I didn't know that the number of Muslims + Christians + Jews doesn't make it to the half of the population of the world.
@ Janaan. Everytime a Twin (consisting of a boy and a girl) were born. Each Twin was born in a different way (Allah (swt) knows how), making that pair different than the other twin. A person couldn't marry with his/her own twin brother/sister but was allowed to marry the person of opposite gender from another twin born at another time.
The fight between Haabil and Qaabil was due to this fact that Qabil was only allowed to marry Haabil's sister and vice versa. But Qaabil thought that His own sister was more beautiful that Haabil's and hence....he got jealous.
^ The version I have heard. Might be incorrect.
Alright if not half than almost half.
it is basically a jewish story (if i am not mistaken) which was adapted in later religions of the region.
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Queer, many of us are not too thrilled with the idea that our grandfather was a gorilla.....may b u r and that's ur choice if thats the case..
Different races is due to gradual effects of the living environment in various parts of the world......those living closer to the equator r darker and those closer to the poles r lighter skinned and so on.....evolution to this degree is accepted by all and undisputed fact agreed by all.....
Our DNA design and parameters r exactly the same.....that suggests quite clearly that the origin and the designer is one......the variation within the design which makes each one of us special is because of the complex mix that formulates DNA.......I will touch on what the Islamic perspective on this is and tht shud answer u......u r still welcome to reject it or laugh it off or whatever makes u feel happy.....
mm no one who understands evolution would say gorillas are the ancestors of humans. but yes, we do have common ancestry. pretty much all life on earth has common ancestry depending upon how far back in time you wish to go.
and since you bring up DNA, humans and chimps have 98% the same DNA. coinkydinky?
i'm not laughing at you, honest. i just think it is much simpler to understand the nature of our world if religion was left to be spiritual/moral guidance, and not the primary source for factual information.
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Adam and Eve were the first human beings on the face of this Earth. from them spread humanity.but i have always had this thing in mind. if people were born of them, then that means they were brothers and sisters. why did God allow incest in the early humans? why he banned it afterwards? why didn't he create another pair of humans so humanity could spread from two separate branches, and thus there would not have been any incest from the start? he is God after all. it would not have been very hard for him to create another pair of humans.
Plenty of things were allowed initially even is Islam during the life of the Prophet (pbuh) and banned later. Alcoholic drink, for example.
We hate alcohol now, but it is something which the Sahaba would not have hated early on as it was not completely prohibited. I see no reason why incest amongst the second generation only of early humans should not be considered the same.
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mm no one who understands evolution would say gorillas are the ancestors of humans. but yes, we do have common ancestry. pretty much all life on earth has common ancestry depending upon how far back in time you wish to go.
and since you bring up DNA, humans and chimps have 98% the same DNA. coinkydinky?
Agree and agree......the similarities in the physical formation can not be denied........take off hair from a chimp and some of them will look 98% similar to the humans in outward features too.........what really differentiates is the mental capacity and power to think and choose.......
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i'm not laughing at you, honest. i just think it is much simpler to understand the nature of our world if religion was left to be spiritual/moral guidance, and not the primary source for factual information.
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religion tht conflicts with science is moribund and a lie..........and science without religion is dangerous and lethal.....
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Plenty of things were allowed initially even is Islam during the life of the Prophet (pbuh) and banned later. Alcoholic drink, for example.
We hate alcohol now, but it is something which the Sahaba would not have hated early on as it was not completely prohibited. I see no reason why incest amongst the second generation only of early humans should not be considered the same.
certain legislations do vary between one Prophet to another Prophet and one scripture to another scripture.......but overall underlying principle always remain the same......."no change will you find in the ways of Allah." (48:22).......you gave an example of alcohol.......it was always deemed evil and forbidden........yes the general population of Arabia were told by the Prophet to abandon alcohol after a certain time.......but did he SAWW or his family ever touch alcohol.......the answer is, NO.......
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religion has always conflicted with science, nussairee.. the church has murdered numerous men of science for stating facts such as the earth revolves around the sun. it is the same all over with evolution now.
religious scripture is not in language suitable to describe facts unambiguously. there is enormous leeway for interpretation even when it comes to relatively simpler ethical guidelines. (eg. is smoking forbidden?) interpretation of such language is left to ordinary mortals with fairly narrow vision who look to the 4th century arabia's way of life as guidance. and deem scripture to be at conflict with what is widely accepted as the truth in the scientific community today.
science, even with religion, can be fairly lethal. most people who are busy killing others aren't godless atheists.
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Marriage between sisters and brothers were allowed in the Shariat of Hazrat Adam. Its the same as marriage between first cousins are allowed in the Shariat of Prophet Mohammed 
but not allowed in Catholics.
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hehe, cute.
we do have early common “ancestry” with a banana.
- we do not share half our genes, just genetic material. we share genetic material with most things living
-last common ancestor of humans and bananas is long gone, but we did come from the same source of life. way before the first modern human.
oh, another point. a lot of DNA is just junk DNA, which doesn’t really serve a purpose but only AIDS in suggesting a single unique origin for all life : P
Also genetic material isn’t only about the phentypic effects, so yes a lot of the processes happening in our bodies can also be happening in a banana. It’s not necessarily that a banana is my first cousin.
it’s really not that haram a concept.
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and some of you need to get familiar with the concept of "mitochondrial eve"