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The italicized portions is self-contradictory...

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As DarkSteven suggests, the best source for a discussion about this is Talmudic scholarship. This is something that experts on the Jewish religion (I think there's a term for a religious scholar who isn't a Rabbi, though I can't remember it offhand) have been considering in great depth for centuries. It's a very interesting field, and I'm sure you'd enjoy reading around it if you make the effort.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

As DarkSteven suggests, the best source for a discussion about this is Talmudic scholarship. This is something that experts on the Jewish religion (I think there's a term for a religious scholar who isn't a Rabbi, though I can't remember it offhand) have been considering in great depth for centuries. It's a very interesting field, and I'm sure you'd enjoy reading around it if you make the effort.

Actually, NOT true.... the best source is the Bible itself, and I quote:

Gen. 6;4. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came into unto the daughters of men, and they bare children unto them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

So, I guess God had more sons than the most well known one, namely Jesus Christ, right?  Maybe this refers to angels, so as to not denigrate the "only son" position of JC?  You get it ON, Gabriel!

ETA:  You want to know what the Bible says?  Ask your friendly neighborhood Atheist.

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Per my recollection, my father told me that G-d created the world's population so that Cain would have people to be shamed by. In other words, they did not spring directly from Adam and Eve.

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I really don't want to get into a discussion about religion as it leads absolutely nowhere.

The Old Testament isn't Christian. 

The Bible doesn't discuss a lot of things because it wasn't written as a science book or as the answer to all questions.  Moses wrote 5 books (or at least was attributed to Moses).  The purpose of these books was to give a sense of history and community to a group of runaway slaves.  The books don't discuss how other people came to be, it just provides a story that links those slaves as direct decendent of their god.  The Japanese have a similar story.  It's pretty powerful stuff to think you are decended from Diety.  A self-esteem booster to folks who had been less than human to their owners for hundreds of years.

Keep in mind that the books were supposedly written during the exodus.  That's where it begins.  Genesis is like a "flashback" scene in a movie or think of it as the "prequel" to the rest.

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Genomics may give you the answer. The information must still be inside the code of your DNA. So start working on it. 

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Genisis 7; 7: And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood

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Gen. 6;4. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came into unto the daughters of men, and they bare children unto them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

So, I guess God had more sons than the most well known one, namely Jesus Christ, right?  Maybe this refers to angels, so as to not denigrate the "only son" position of JC?  You get it ON, Gabriel!

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All about Eve?
Out of Africa?

Have you been raiding the film shelf again vinnie?

the.dark.

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I really don't want to get into a discussion about religion as it leads absolutely nowhere.

The Old Testament isn't Christian. 

The Bible doesn't discuss a lot of things because it wasn't written as a science book or as the answer to all questions.  Moses wrote 5 books (or at least was attributed to Moses).  The purpose of these books was to give a sense of history and community to a group of runaway slaves.  The books don't discuss how other people came to be, it just provides a story that links those slaves as direct decendent of their god.  The Japanese have a similar story.  It's pretty powerful stuff to think you are decended from Diety.  A self-esteem booster to folks who had been less than human to their owners for hundreds of years.

Keep in mind that the books were supposedly written during the exodus.  That's where it begins.  Genesis is like a "flashback" scene in a movie or think of it as the "prequel" to the rest.

Aw, eyes... does it have to lead anywhere? Can't we just have a little fun?

Gotta wonder about this whole exodus of slaves thing. I have read there is no archeological evidence from the Egyptian digs to support the story. Is that true?