Do you believe in human evolution?

um...the theory of evolution sounds much better to me I guess and that's why I believe it more.

For one man to have been created and a woman made out of his rib (basically the same DNA), and produce offspring? It's even worse than incest between siblings in the genetic point of view. And them being the parents of the entire human population? Ehh I don't know. Doesn't really work for me.

And does it really even matter? One day the universe will collapse back into itself thus negating all life anyway.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by DarkLink2135

Ozma: Actually, the reason incest is forbidden (barring the obvious moral reasons, and the repulsion the very idea brings up =/) is because there is a much greater risk for birth defects in children. This is because our genes, over thousands of years, have gradually begun to decay. I imagine that the first humans (assuming they were created, not evolved) would have had perfect DNA and therefore no issue with birth defects in offspring until much, MUCH further down the road.

Actually that was what I was talking about. I couldn't care less about the moral implications of incest, just that there are things that can go wrong with sibling breeding. Not taking into account the fact that random mutations can occur via radiation or imperfect DNA transcription, Creationism would show that our DNA should EXACTLY be the same. But it's not. Humanity has too many genetic variations for Creationism to explain. Unless God in his almighty wisdom created eve into a totally different person with different genes, it still wouldn't explain how most of the human race doesn't have genetic problems from their kids interbreeding.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by DarkLink2135

That's exactly what I explained though. Assuming we were created by God, or a God in general, I would assume we started off with perfect DNA. Over time it's gotten less and less "perfect" so to speak via various transcription errors, which results in higher chances of birth defects from interbreeding. Way back at "the beginning," there wouldn't have been such a high chance from that.

EDIT^^^ Note that this is nothing more than an unfounded, untested theory. If the human race truly started out as 2 created human beings, this is how I would explain the problem of inbreeding.

If it is true that we were perfect in the beginning and somehow became less perfect via transcription errors, the human race should have started degenerating a long time ago or become extinct. Becoming "not perfect" is not a good sign in the natural world. And if you say that transcription errors DO occur then you concede that genes CAN mutate. Either evolution has happened throughout the history of the earth (natural selection) or in your creationist theory evolution will happen because of these imperfections.

Just the example of the different skin colors cannot be explained without some sort of evolutionary process, or did Adam and Eve have multi colored babies as well?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.