If Adam and eve had 2 children, wouldn't their children have to inter-marry which is biologically unfavorable?

First of all, Adam and Eve never existed. The genetic variation of the human species is such that it could never have arisen from one breeding pair about 6,000 years ago (which is what the bible actually states). And, of course, this is before we take into consideration that Eve is somehow supposed to have been some kind of a gender-altered clone of Adam so that genetically, Adam was in effect breeding with himself.

Furthermore, the bible also states that we are not all descended from Adam and Eve because god is supposed to have wiped out the entire human population of the Earth in a gigantic flood, leaving only Noah, his wife and their children.

So even if god is supposed to have created people other than Adam and Eve so that there wasn't any inbreeding, he wiped them all out with the flood so that the children of Noah were required to commit incest if they were to repopulate the Earth.

As is now being demonstrated in the Muslim communities of the UK where marrying first cousins is commonplace, inbreeding causes numerous genetic problems, even from apparently healthy parents. In just a few generations the human race would have all but died out if we were all descended from Noah's children.

Yet one more reason why the bible is nothing more than a collection of Bronze Age myths and legends with no firm foundation in reality.

EDIT: "Just about every science source I've ever read from says we're descended from a small group of primates that originated in Africa" [flyingpig] - yes... that "small group" was never less than an estimated 60,000 individuals, all of whom inherited considerable genetic diversity from their ancestors on account of having been evolving for the previous 3 billion years, not created from nothing at one instant 6,000 years ago.If Adam and eve had 2 children, wouldn't their children have to inter-marry which is biologically unfavorable?Well first of all, Adam and Eve had quite a few children.



As far as inbreeding. Just about every science source I've ever read from says we're descended from a small group of primates that originated in Africa.

Meaning, we're all inbred anyways. Maybe not to the same extent as if Adam and Eve only had two children, but enough to make you wonder how in the world the human race has survived all of these years.If Adam and eve had 2 children, wouldn't their children have to inter-marry which is biologically unfavorable?
Well their two children were both boys so in fact they would have to pair up with their mum again, and hope that they get a girl before she hits menopause. Then savagely abuse the girl for years to come in the interests of populating the planet. God is pretty harsh deliberately giving two sons...If Adam and eve had 2 children, wouldn't their children have to inter-marry which is biologically unfavorable?In the bible, God said he made Adam and Eve. But what he didn't say was that he also made other human beings. It was just not mentioned in the bible. The bible is not a science text book, it doesn't explain everything.
They had more than two children, but that's irrelevant.

"Unfavorable" only happens if there are deleterious recessives. Adam had no deleterious recessives. Eve (who was made from a piece of Adam) didn't either.If Adam and eve had 2 children, wouldn't their children have to inter-marry which is biologically unfavorable?Yes, that is why Adam and Eve did not exist. Humans evolved out of apes. DNA proves that all humans originated in east Africa about 150,000 years ago, way beyond the Bible timeline.If Adam and eve had 2 children, wouldn't their children have to inter-marry which is biologically unfavorable?
I'm pretty sure the person responsible for writing the bible didn't know much about inbreeding.
don't question the logic found in works of fiction... they don't need to make senseIf Adam and eve had 2 children, wouldn't their children have to inter-marry which is biologically unfavorable?
do they have a choice?