Well, since it’s all made up, I guess you can claim whatever you want.
We’re here for an interesting discussion. Mythology totally off the table for you?
May as well be discussing the hypothetical offspring of Santa and the Easter Bunny.
Upvote for Carlin influenced username. But also, “Go on…”
At the very least it’s more like discussing a TV show or something
Eww
Clausterbunny
How about we discuss John Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden. Know where the title came from and how that plays into the story?
Go back to /r/atheism child. Adults are conversing about mythology.
You’re really something else.
Unfortunately I doubt you’re going to have an academic discussion like this in a stupid thread in showerthoughts.
Although it doesn’t sound like the discussion you seem to want to have would be very interesting.
Edit: I was partly wrong. There’s lots of very interesting mythology discussion happening in this post.
Two things about that (overanalyzing your shower thought):
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Geneticists have what they call the “50/500 rule,” which basically means that you need at least 50 people to avoid inbreeding, and at least 500 to avoid genetic drift. So while three people are 50% better than two, it’s not going to come close to avoiding inbreeding.
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If you read up on Lilith, including your Wikipedia link, you’ll see her name only comes up once in the Bible, and it’s not as Adam’s wife. All the stuff about her comes from other things, including Babylonian and Mesopotamian writings, and lots of folklore from the middle ages. And at that, she’s sometimes Adam’s first wife, with different explanations about what happened to her that really in her not coming back to the garden, or she’s a demon. So there’s not much likelihood that she’s contributing to the gene pool.
- Wasn’t Eve made from Adam’s rib and thus shares his DNA?
Yeah, good point.
would their kids be clones?
No, the products of incest.
Hemophilia and all that would be more likely, but no cool identical stuff going on
Depends on the chromosomes, if adam had two identical ones for each the kids would be clones barring mutations.
The chances are around 260k to 1. Factoring Eve’s lack of a second sex chromosome, (unless she has swyer syndrome) the equation would be 1/((22²+1)(23²))≈0.00039%
Seeing how we’re talking about religion and first man, I don’t think we’re limited by probability here.
BTW so there are 30k people with identical chromosomes??
As you mentioned it depends on chromosomal differences, I just provided the probability of it actually happening.
And, yes. Barring any mutations or trait selectivity, if we all came from the same individual, there would be about 30k identical people of the 8.1b population.
Lol, I read this as “would their kids be bones?”
Lol only their mom is bones
Hmmm, no, because which of your genes you pass down is still a bit random.
That good ‘ol XX rib mmm
That one version. There actually two different versions of Adam and Eve.
What are the two versions?
One was they both created at same time and second version she created from one of his ribs.
Idk I thought it was an Evangelion thing
The only counterpoint i can see is that god is (honestly, at best WAS) infallible.
So god made 2 perfect humans who cannot inbreed as there are no defective genes.
At some point down the line, mutations came in and introduced possible genes that could combine/dominate to produce inbreeding.If we are accepting the premise of 2 original humans, why not 2 perfect original humans.
If God made eve from adams rib, why not have them be genetically perfect.
But Im sure there is some science i am missing where a huge genome analysis has shown that “perfect” genes have never or could not ever exist.And, tbh, this might as well be all science fiction based on a bunch of made up stories.
If I remember my hermeneutics, the canon is that essentially, God had “blessed” early descendants of Adam and Eve, allowing their children to thrive.
It wasn’t until after the flood I believe that incest becomes more of a theme in the Bible, implying that they shouldn’t have children.
But it’s been years since I gave this any serious study so I may be remembering incorrectly.
It all makes more sense when you consider these stories in their historical social context. They’re a compiled bundle of stories from various religious traditions that were kind of grafted together to form one monotheistic state religion to help unify the country. So you find stories from both north and south Judah for example, the two creation myths in Genesis. And you see the monotheistic god referred to by more than one moniker because they were originally different gods.
Awesome, I was showing up for the demon angle.
Good response!
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Because Lilith isn’t mentioned in all versions of the Adam and Eve story, and certainly isn’t mentioned in Genesis. There’s plenty of versions of the story with lots of different characters, and plenty of interpretations of what happens, but in the Canonical Christian Bible, there are at least two events where the entire human race is only directly described as being one single family - Adam and Eve, and Noah’s flood.
The confusion comes from Genesis giving two creation accounts of a woman.
Genesis 1:27 So God created mankind in his own image,in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
then later…
Genesis 2:22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
It appears that a man and a woman were created at the same time in Genesis 1:27, then later in Genesis 2:22 a woman was created from a rib
This is probably a result of the Hebrew literary practice of narrating a story once in poetic language and then again in prose. So it’s the same man and woman being created, just retold in a different style.
This is correct. Context is everything in understanding any historical source. The Hebrew texts are no different, in fact they’re a great case study in this field. They’re littered with complex poems.
My understanding is that these were two separate stories that were compiled into official state religious texts at the time of King Josiah to unify the country under one monotheistic religion.
This is the origin of the McRib.
Rib was better as a DJ, just put down the mic.
Current scholarly consensus is that the Geneses are actually two different accounts, one likely originating in ancient Israel and the other in ancient Judah. It’s why the two stories are so startlingly different when you read them side by side.
Exactly. King Josiah is believed to have had religious stories and traditions from both regions of Judah (North and South).
The Bible, and even the Torah, are compilations from stories that existed before these particular books were written down. However, the character of Lilith as “first wife of Adam” is probably not something left out of the Torah, but a much later invention.
You have to remember that which books got to be canon in the Bible were decide at the Council of Nicea
Lilith left Adam after she refused to become subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden
Based.
All Hail Lilith, The sacred mother of Feminism
Tone
satire
She became the first demon. The first example of the Bible literally demonizing women.
Sort of but not really. Lilith isn’t in the biblical version of Adam and Eve. There might be one mention of Lilith in and unrelated story in Isaiah, or it might be an old Hebrew word for screech owl.
The connection to Adam comes from folktales and fanfics written 1,000 years later. In terms of biblical tradition, she’s closer to Steve than Adam.
The Bible does a fine job of demonizing women, starting with Eve. But Christians don’t need a scriptural reason to demonize something they can’t control.
1000 years after what? Adam?
Good point, I meant 1000 years after the ecumenical councils established what books would be included in the Bible.
But you’re right, Genesis and Isaiah are old testament, much older than the Bible.
We need the Book of Rejects. All the books and stories that were considered but not included
deleted by creator
Steve ? You mean from Minecraft?
That’s the reason my wife and I named our daughter Lilith.
She’s not taking anyone’s shit.
Which might be relevant if those were real people. You might as well worry about the genetic makeup of Pokemon
Are you saying pokemon are not real ?
Not at all! . Pikachu assures me that he exists.
I love how some scholars say Lilith didn’t exist… None of them did!
Sounds like a shitty retcon from an series that jumped the shark
Literally what the Talmud is after Jesus showed up who basically perfectly matched their messiah, but they rejected Him because he didn’t come with an army to bring them greatness lmao
Anyone feel like this is just the story of some douche who divorced his awesome wife to find a subservient slave wife and over thousands of years its become part of a religion?
“Oh that Lilith we don’t talk about her she was a demon” he tells his grandson and 200 years after the story people interpret her as a literal demon, and just gets wackier and wackier as time goes on. Kinda feel like you could explain all that Abrahamic lore that way.
I’m just saying, homie made the wrong choice.
Let her do all the work.🤣
Adam passed up a creampie loving dick riding demon. They were sterile and she didn’t have monthlies. Lilith wouldn’t have had him eat the apple, she would have had him on pineapple and water until the sky fell as fire and it rained as ashes.
Lilith fucks back, Eve wanted to do it through a sheet. Adam was a damned fool.
And they were bums living in some other guy’s garden until they got caught.
I don’t think creationism is particularly bothered by genetics.
Apparently telomeres used to be so long they wrapped around your ankles and you lived to be 600.
Can’t have an ancient story without an evil woman you can blame everything on.
Couldn’t God just create more humans after the first three? Is it certain that he creates 3 and then explicitly stops?
He apparently did. Cain was sent east of Eden to the Land of Nod where he found a wife.
So, what a lot of people don’t realize is a large percentage of the Bible is just lineages.
how many ribs do you think adam has?
Lilith mated with demons not humans.
God is there any way where I can be Lilith?
If you’re grasping at cousins as being the sole separator you know you have a problem. But also there’s a lot of conflicting information, such as Cain settling in the city of Nod east of Eden which suggests I guess that there were people outside of Eden already. Don’t take anything too literally, and jokes are jokes.
And God got mad at Lilith for not being obedient and banished her so perhaps there were a series of Liliths. I think Eve was taken from the rib because that was supposed to make her less independently minded than creating her from the dust like Lilith.
Actually, the rib part is a bit of a mistranslation: https://youtu.be/FN4pVp6lNJ0
So many comments in that video from people saying " i speak Hebrew. Tsela means rib"
This is not a good video to support your claim that its a mistranslation
Also Adam lived quite a long life. Like several human lifetimes
Then there is this fun titbit.
Adam withdrew from Eve for 130 years after their expulsion from Eden, and in this time both he and Eve had sex with demons, until at length they reunited and Eve gave birth to Seth
What scripture is that?
It might be a creative interpretation of Genesis 5:3, which I just read as Seth being born when Adam was 130 years old.
Perhaps if they didn’t age in Eden, the concept of “living X years” wouldn’t apply, so “when Adam had lived 130 years” could be interpreted to mean after they’d been booted out. But they hadn’t had Cain and Abel before the Fall, so I don’t really see how that interpretation could work, unless it’s being merged with other narratives.
Thing is, Lilith didn’t pop up in texts apart from post-Jesus, such as talmudic texts. (although a Lilith was mentioned in Isaiah, it could have been a demon of some sort) so she’d only really be regarded by modern day Judaism, not by Christians.
Why would Lilith not be a sibling of Adam if Eve is?
Lilith was made from the dust of the Earth like Adam. The story is that this is the reason why she was independent minded and as a result God made a new woman from the rib of man so that woman would be “from man” and more likely to be obedient to God and man. Not stating my opinion - that’s just what I read.
Eve was made from Adam’s rib, so presuming that humans work like bananas, eve is Adam’s clone, not sibling.
Eve was made from Adam’s rib, so presuming that humans work like apples, eve is Adam’s clone, not sibling.
Presumably because she wouldn’t have been made from his rib like Eve. But OP conveniently ignores the fact that Lilith is way too badass to have been a part of most mainline flavors of Judaism and Christianity. So she isn’t mentioned because most religious people don’t accept her as a part of their canon. They should. It’s a great story.
