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The Bible
teaches clearly that all human beings are descendants of Adam
and
Eve-thus there had to be
inter-marriage between brother and sister. There
would have been no risk of
this causing harmful deformities in the offspring,
because mutations
(accidental changes in the hereditary information) need time
to occur and accumulate in
a population. Thus the first few generations would
have inherited perfect or
near-perfect genes, largely undamaged by mutations.
In the pre-Flood world,
harmful radiation from the sun and other cosmic
sources was considerably
more filtered than it is in the post-Flood world.
Increased radiation and depletion of oxygen in the atmosphere
(subsequent to
the lowering of the
atmospheric pressure) may have contributed greatly to man's
rapid degeneration. With
the passing of many centuries, many of these harmful,
degenerative changes became
added to the human race, so by the time of
Moses it was absolutely necessary to have laws against incest,
and these were
given to mankind (Leviticus
18-20). Today there would be even more chance
of deformity/disease in the
offspring of such a union than in Moses's time.
Because of the long
life-spans, Adam and Eve's descendants may have been
very numerous and widely
dispersed before Cain even took a wife-that is, any
inhabitants of the land of
Nod would have been descendants of Adam and Eve,
who had many sons and
daughters.
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