smallest population needed for human survival

Seconded. If there's anything this forum doesn't need it's crazy, religious people randomly inserting their own opinions into a thread just for the hell of it.

thirded. What we need are crazy, geeky people randomly derailing threads just for the fun of it. :D
 
Yes, I always did wonder about their wives...

Chimps ? Baboons ? Orangutans ?

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Well, since there was only one female in existence at the time, they must have been boffing their mother. Or there were sisters not important enough to mention by name.
 
Well, since there was only one female in existence at the time, they must have been boffing their mother. Or there were sisters not important enough to mention by name.

At the time of the writing of Genesis (or the Sumerian tablets, if they were a source of Genesis), women were held in about as high a regard as the womenfolk in present-day Islam, hence they would remained unnamed.
Keep the thread alive, it's interesting.
 
At the time of the writing of Genesis (or the Sumerian tablets, if they were a source of Genesis), women were held in about as high a regard as the womenfolk in present-day Islam, hence they would remained unnamed.
Keep the thread alive, it's interesting.

It still means Adam & Eve's sons were schtupping their sisters.

Anyway, the population size could probably be pretty small if it were isolated on an island and limited in its contact with diseases, and refrained from intensive livestock raising. With careful organization and breeding, you could probably do it with a handful of both sexes, altough you'll have a very vulnerable population for thousands of years.
 
It still means Adam & Eve's sons were schtupping their sisters.

Anyway, the population size could probably be pretty small if it were isolated on an island and limited in its contact with diseases, and refrained from intensive livestock raising. With careful organization and breeding, you could probably do it with a handful of both sexes, altough you'll have a very vulnerable population for thousands of years.

You know there are different ways of interpreting Genesis. If I remember correctly, a Jewish friend told me that when God refers to creating man in our image in Genesis chapter 1, he is actually talking to Adam and Eve who he has already created (Though they show up in Chapter 2).

Personally, I don't believe that Genesis (through the Flood at least) can be read as a material history myself.

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Bill
 
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