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If God knowingly made a male and female with sexual organs for reproduction, don't you think He/It would have the foresight to make them pre-diverse? The asians, blacks, indians, etc you mention all come from their own part of the globe - a part where they bred, and where those traits that characterize the physical features associated with what we name them (asian, indian, etc) became more pronounced - not only from social reasons, but also from a great deal of chance - from who happens to survive and remain in the gene pool, and who died from lack of medical technology, etc. The also wasn't a mixing like there is today - once a people got somewhere they usually stayed. No one was like "well, we're moving 2000 miles so Harry can have a programming job." So you get these pockets of civilizations, and over time you get these asian, black, white, etc.

Re being whiteys, the Bible makes no claim as to Adam and Eve being white. Pictures of Jesus as a rugged handsome dude with long blondish hair and blue eyes make me chuckle. In fact the Bible says Jesus was unremarkable in appearance, which I take to mean he was just an average joe, not handsome at all. (But you can't sell invented pictures of someone who doesn't look good-looking. Lame.)

I see what you're saying with the incest deal. At some point it was okay? And later when there was enough people it was wrong? This is plausible if you look at "is there a need" versus "is there no need." So maybe it's wrong if there's no reason for it? Kind of a cheap answer on my part, but I've never really thought about it.

Eh, what I meant by geographical distribution is that there are distances which ensure that vocabulary does not travel. Not so much now that we have all this global communication stuff, etc. Anyway, I think you caught my drift before. If a bunch of people live on an island and no one from 'outside' ever goes there, the language changes. Especially if you have no written language!

All that said, maybe Adam and Eve didn't exist at all. Whether fictional or not, what's most important is what the story has to say about people. I think what it says, is that at some point, "people" chose to make their own opinions and their own judgements based on what selfishly suited them, knowingly going against "doing the right thing." It's that selfishness that breaks us away from "love". Ever heard it said, "God is love"?

You can also think about the point of "Adam and Eve" like this: God wants a relationship with people. In a relationship, you can't force someone to want to stay in it with you, right? You might do it physically and threaten their life if they try to leave, but if you did that to a girl, her heart would be running away from you at a million miles an hour even if her body wasn't, right? Soooo - to have a true, intimate relationship you have to give the other person the possibility of leaving. You have to say "okay, I accept you into my heart, and I know that by doing so I ALSO have to accept the fact that you can hurt me."

And they did it man. The "Adam and Eve" said, "well okay, we're outta here." And poof! Now there's all this bullshit in the world, because they broke up with God/Love.

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