First off, I've been raised in a Christian family.
I came up with a fundamental flaw in the Bible that nobody seems to have an answer for, so I thought I'd post it on here and let you guys argue with me about it.
In the Bible, it is commonly accepted that God created Adam, and he was the first man. God used parts of Adam to create Eve, which was the first woman. These were the first humans on earth. Adam and Eve had lots of babies and that's how the world's population started.
Theres lots of other stuff, but thats the basics of it.
Flaw #1: If Adam and Eve had a bunch of babies, then these babies would grow up and eventually have to have sex with each other in order for the human race to survive. This would mean brothers and sisters performing incest, which is against the "rules" of the Bible. The offspring of those people would still be related as "counsins," they'd have sex with each other and perform incest again, and so on and so forth.
This would mean we're all related, so I don't see how incest could be a "bad thing" if that's how the world started anyway. Not that I'm into that sort of thing.
Flaw #2: If Adam and Eve were the first people, why are there different races of people in the world? We have whites, blacks, indians, iraqis, chinese, russian, cubans, mexicans, etc etc. We all look noticably different than other races.
Unless Adam was half chinese, part russian, part black, part mexican and Eve was part iraqi, part white, and part indian or something like that, you cant come up with all these new races. Its like saying if you mix black and white together you end up with black. You don't end up with green, purple, red and all the other colors in the rainbow.
An arguement could be "Well we started out as one thing, and then people's features changed acording to where they lived." Such as blacks have dark skin because of the hot sun in Africa, or something like that. Well in that case, I could argue that this is natural "evolution." If we can evolve this much and change our physical appearance so drastically, than whos to say that we didn't evolve from amebas and there is no God?
We could accept this as a part of the bible that is untrue, or partially untrue, or that there are pieces missing. Mistakes do happen when a bunch of people are trying to tell a story that happened so many years ago. However, If we accept that this is partially untrue, who's to say that the entire Bible is full of partially untrue material? What if we're all doing the wrong thing, and the Muslims go to heaven and the Christians burn in hell? Or the Jews or the Hindus?
that's enough of my out-of-the-box thinking for now, lets see what you guys come up with.
[This message has been edited by Cash Stealer (edited 10-07-2004).]
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