I mean, apart from the archaeologist part that seems pretty sane to me to ask if you’re an atheist or at least a skeptic.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 4&version=NIV
Adam and Eve have two kids, Cain and Abel.
Cain kills Abel (8). Cain gets cursed. (11) Cain is afraid he’ll be killed by… ??? (14). God is all, nah fam karma mark lmao. (15) Cain goes and lives in the land of Nod. (16) Cain, one of three living humans at this point, makes love to his wife, who randomly now exists, and births a son, Enoch. Cain also builds a city… for the now five people who live on Earth. (17).
What’s interesting is in Genesis 1 God created all the stuff, but in Genesis 2 it says none of the plants or animals or man had materialized yet, then God makes then an asks Adam to name them.
I definitely read Genesis as a story of tribal origins
Apparently the biblical explanation is that it’s a sister of Cain. Maybe the daughters births didn’t warrant an extra line in the Bible? It probably doesn’t keep a record of when Adam and Eve acquire new property as that’s mostly what women were considered.
From the Creation Museum. Directly from their website, so they’re proud of this:
Number six is my favorite. “Because God said incest was okay back then and who are you to judge?”
They really said that genetic disease is an accumulation of sin. Like someone is born with Downs Syndrome because their grandmother cheats at rummy.
No one commented on “get his wife”? I assume a bride mail order catalog? They must have existed back then.
6 sounds more like “if you want to allow gay marriage you better shut up about incest”
Oh my parts 3 and 4 they’re so close to figuring out what the Darwin guy was talking about
Not sure I would trust anything from the creation museum to be actually biblical.
I know there’s an ancient myth about Adam having a first wife before Eve — there’s probably also other myths that fill in the blanks. There’s also nothing stopping God from making more people during this period like he made Adam and Eve. They were probably just the “first batch” so to speak.
That would be Lilith.
TIL. Lilith sounds way more fun & attractive than boring compliant Eve
The story of Lilith has certainly been an inspiration to a lot of writers.
But I suppose so has Eve being tempted by the fruit.
“Why are you fucking your sister?!”
“Uh, God said I could. How dare you question Him."
I loved their explanation regarding building the Ark authentically when Noah lived to be over 900 years old. It’s simple really. He built it when he was like 300. You see it makes perfect sense. Next question.
Is it really a biblical explanation if it isn’t in the bible?
Touché.
It does actually say that Adam and eve had other sos and daughters. The assumption is from one of them.
Ive heard people say that Adam being the first human is metaphorical in the text, and means “first YHWH worshipper”, not sure how widespread or accurate this view is.
Accurate, not at all.
Widespread, not much.
The general answers to this question is or that Cain married his sister (fundamentalist view) or that Adam and Cain are metaphors and didn’t existed at all (mainline view).
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It was made up thousands of years ago by desert nomads. That’s the answer.
If you want an in-universe one, that’s easy - god did it.
That’s why it’s called “faith.” There’s nothing rational about it.
It was aliens?
I don’t care if the lore of any fantasy book is inconsistent.
And now tell me more about his sister.
The Bible is not fact Take all the time you need.
I think many people are confusing the meaning of “rational”. In the context of philosophy and other related fields, it has a very specific meaning and the thing that you are asking is actually empirical in nature when in the context of those fields. But the belief in those empirical evidence being rational stems from the lack of knowledge on the philosophical side of things so if you really are looking for an answer in good faith, then a discussion is possible as otherwise it is indeed an insanity trying to convince someone that will not accept others definition from a different field.
A wizard did it.
