Many do. In Christianity they are seen as being the ones who created original sin. In Islam, Adam is seen as the first prophet. However, Christianity says we have original sin because of them. But Islam says man is born good.
All I’ll say is anyone who professes to be Christian and believe the Bible and then say Adam and Eve story is true has more respect from me than people who state they are Christian and then cherry pick what to believe out of the Bible.
literally all humans alive today share mitochondrial dna from one woman, often called “mitochondrial eve.” she wasn’t the only woman alive at the time, but all other maternal lines eventually ended—only hers survived in an unbroken line. this doesn’t mean she was the first human, just the most recent common ancestor through the maternal line.
this isnt the eve the bible talks sbout, but interesting nonetheless. all humans alive today can be traced to one female
There are many that believe it in the literal sense. Putting an exact number to would be, at the least, difficult. But I grew up in a family with many people that did and I’m positive I was far from the only one.
People that do believe it tend to be totally uninterested in the details of how this would work. They simply don’t care about and therefor won’t consider the complications.
Kinda interesting to read through their desperate one-sided war against “evolutionists” and their attempts to disprove all the proof that the Biblical narrative of the history of the universe is irrational
All humans descended from one woman named Eve, based on mitochondrial DNA. All males descended from one man named Adam, based on Y chromosome DNA. But This Adam and this Eve never met.
Almost 30 years ago scientists proved that every living human is descended from one woman that lived in Africa. Something to do with Mitochondria. Not an expert, won’t try to explain it.
Logically, that one woman had one mother, and one father. So, every human being alive has two common ancestors.
The Bible, especially the early old testament gets taken far too literally in places where it is metaphorical or parables(IMHO).
Still it is interesting the parallels it has to what we understand about early human history.
I’m a Christian… what most of them (us?) don’t realize is that much of the first book of the Bible is not literal.
In the story where Cain kills Abel (the two oldest sons of Adam and Eve), God is about to banish Cain from the region. Cain’s response is to beg for mercy because, once he’s kicked out, someone will immediately kill him.
Um…if they’re the only people alive, why are there roaming droves of barbarians out and about? There are things about our planet and history that we’ll never understand, through science, religion, or otherwise. In the meantime, I’m not going to act like I have all of the answers and that this one book, which had multiple authors, adjustments, and translations, is a literal interpretation of every event it describes.
Reason and logic don’t come into play here. You can’t get a flu shot every year and deny evolution, yet people do. Over half of all Republicans were angry that Obama split with his pastor of 15+ years over gay rights. Over half of Republicans AT THE SAME TIME said that he was a Muslim.
Just accept that people can be absolutely irrational and completely unwilling to accept that a conflict in beliefs exists, or that factually they are clearly wrong. It makes life easier when you don’t waste time on them.
It does seem ridiculous, but given that the science does show all humans are descended from one man and one woman, it’s not surprising. Then again, they lived at extremely different times.
Technically for believers I think the all coming from only a few happened twice in the Bible
(Adam/eve and then later Noah and fam post flood, for those that believe the full earth was flooded)
Feel free to correct me if that’s not accurate (speaking of the Bible and related beliefs per OP question- not at all trying to prove anything for or against here as that’s futile either way)
I was actually just reading about this a few days ago. They’ve been doing work with mitochondrial DNA for a while now and have determined there was an Eve for all intents and purposes and we all carry her DNA to some degree. In that regard there is an Adam as well, but they are some genetic distance apart from each other and not like some “power couple” that spawned humanity. It was a really interesting article, if a bit heavy on the science.
I know a guy, he’s a creationist, but pretty well educated, went to university, did sciences.
I’m not sure how he reconciles this stuff in his head, or just ignores it, or whatever, but he believes that the earth is 6,000 years old, dinosaurs aren’t real, all the rest of it.
I think some people choose to believe it, because they think they’ll go to Hell if they don’t.
I’m Catholic, and definitely not a fundamentalist. I read that the Adam and Eve story was first adopted by Jews, who borrowed it from the Pagans, who made it up to tell their children. Their attitude was “it’s just a story.” I read this in a book; please do not accuse me of spreading shit. I’m merely paraphrasing what this book said about the subject.
Yes. Simpler explanations are easier to grasp so people tend to cling to them. Making them a matter of religious belief makes this effect more powerful.
The terms have some scientific merit to be fair, “mitochondrial Eve” refers to the most recent female human from whom we all inherit mitochondrial DNA, and there’s a similar male human (I forget his name) from whom all modern Y-chromosome carrying humans descend. In a sense there was an “Adam” and an “Eve,” but they were not alive at the same time and they were not the first or only humans alive at the time.
Omg yes. Any evangelical type of church preaches it and everyone accepts it as gospel. Don’t you dare ask logical questions though. That means you’re lacking faith and doubting god.
Mormons very much believe this. The Adam and Eve story is a foundational part of the Mormon temple experience. Also, Mormons believe that the literal Garden of Eden was located in Jackson County, Missouri.
My hang up with this is that they only had male children. Which would mean their mom was the only option for procreation. Their children would have also been their siblings.
Yes. I was on a date once with a girl that made it clear she believed in that story in the most literal way possible. She also believed the earth was only 4000 years old or something like that.
Look, I get that the scientists have their theories, but the Bible which is a series of stories translated through 117 generations across 23 languages is verified fact.
Used to be one myself (was raised that way). Looking back, my brain lowkey hurt all the time from cognitive dissonance from trying to compute how that could be true (for instance, did their offspring commit incest? If not where did the other people come from?)
What I did for a long while is just give up and trust that God somehow made it all work.
Fortunately I ended up deciding to rake it all through the coals and had to admit to myself it really didn’t make any sense (not just the Adam and Eve thing but the whole God thing too).
Did you know that the book of Matthew uses an erroneous translation for one of the central messianic prophecies?
Matthew 2:3-6 NIV (6 is the relevant quote)
3When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. 5“In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
6“ ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.
Vs
Micah 5:2 NIV (original quote)
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
though you are small among the clans[a] of Judah,
out of you will come for me
one who will be ruler over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,
from ancient times.”
If you plug in the accurate wording it stops making sense, contextually its about a conflict with the Assyrians, not at all about the messiah.
Iirc it has to do with the commonly available translation of the “old testament” at the time having gone through a few layers of translation into greek and thus the verse’s wording changed a bit.
Stuff like this broke the camels back. If God can’t even make sure the people writing his stuff down quote his other stuff properly he certainly couldn’t make an impossible incest situation work and probably just doesn’t exist in the first place.
Yes, there are people that believe that the creation myth they were raised with is literally true. Of course there’s lots of complications and it makes no sense if you really look into it.
To be perfectly frank, we’re just animals. Logic and rationality are absolutely not the fundamental nature of our being, they are things that we can develop and focus on. And no matter how rational we think we are, we all selectively apply or don’t apply it to different aspects of our life.
Well, yes some do, and some have alternate takes on it, like for example, to me, ‘eve’ or ‘adam’ were the first ever true human. Similar to how the egg came before the chicken. The first ever modern human, could be considered ‘adam’ or ‘eve’
There is also a theory that all of our ancestral lines go back to one woman in Africa. While I don’t believe in Adam and Eve, if this theory is ever proven true it wouldn’t be that different from the Adam and Eve one.
my parents told me they did when i was pretty young and learning about evolution in school. even i knew something was up at the time. i think the only thing i can chalk it up to is a complete disinterest in either how it is that adam and eve made man or how evolution works, so they just pick the one in line with their religion. baffling in my opinion
Yep. I went to college and had a roommate who was one of them.
Literally believed that Adam and Eve were first humans, Earth and universe created in six days (plus seventh day of rest) on some day just over 6000 years ago in October, animals exactly as is. Hell, dude even thought everything was vegan until the fall of Eden due to the “sin of death” (or something like that) not existing till the eating of the forbidden fruit. Needless to say, he was homeschooled by very fundamentalist Christian parents.
I even asked my parents a few times and in school if Dinosaurs existed then where does it fit with creation? I think I was told creation happened before the dinosaurs and then I asked where are the humans? Then after was convinced that when the asteroid hit the dinosaurs, God then did creation and then came Adam and eve. I don’t remember if I convinced myself this or was told this. But it’s confusing when schools teach both creation and the existence of Dinosaurs because it’s very inconsistent.
Yes 100% there are they are called religious many religions follow the belief that all humans came from just two a male and a female and that somehow avoided incest which makes no mathematical or logical sense.
Hi OP I was one of those people. If you want to know what it’s like to be ingrained in science denial and claw your way out feel free to reach out to me or find me live on twitch to talk about it. Always happy to share 🙂
We don’t have dress this up. Yes. Because everybody is born ignorant and we are lazy by nature, some people stick with the first explanation for things that they ever get (usually from parents who were born ignorant and lazily stuck with their first explanation). Education and curiosity can break this cycle, but they’re not as widely available as we like to think.
Plenty. I was raised in Young Earth Creationism. There’s no logic to it, just a lot of twisting of scripture to make things fit. The Bible contradicts this in Genesis; Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel and then later a son, Seth, in that order, and of course other sons and daughters, later on. But after Cain slew Abel he went to Nod, took a wife, and gave birth to a son. So where did the wife come from? Certainly not Adam’s brood. He was cast out.
It takes a lot more faith to believe the Earth is 6000 years old than to accept facts.
I remember I asked this question in Sunday School, as a child less than 10 years old, “If the world started with just two people doesn’t that mean we’re all inbred?”
The answer was the classic, “Anything is possible with God.”
Yes. Some people also believe the Garden of Eden was in Jackson County, Mississippi. They also believe that Native Americans migrated to the U.S. from Israel.
A dishearteningly large number of people, unfortunately. Not that the belief itself is unfortunate, but rather the tendencies of most of the people who believe it.
Yes, but it doesn’t mean they’re stupid. My dad believes this and he has a doctorate and is one of the best critical thinkers I know and is always researching things. I think I could probably get him to change his mind on this if I really pressed him. (He is not a “young earther,” btw.)
There is probably a genetic “Adam and eve” one pair of human beings all humans are descended from. As far as a garden with a snake and a tree or whatever that’s debatable lol
My mom is the sweetest lady ever and has always bent over backwards for my sister and me. But there’s one thing she said that still makes me question her reasoning and intellect to this day.
We were raised in the church. Every Sunday without fail. I have always been fascinated by science, biology, dinosaurs, and animals. Even as a kid, I could tell that the stories they told in church weren’t literally true. I assumed they were just moral lessons or symbolic thing. I also figured everyone else knew that too.
One day after church, when I was about 11 or 12, the topic of creationism came up. I had just read a library book about evolution and was telling my mom all about how humans are descendants of great apes and that we share something like 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees. I thought it was so interesting.
My mom then said, “I don’t think that’s how we came to be. If humans came from apes, how come there aren’t humans walking out of the jungles all the time?”
As a middle-schooler, I was completely flabbergasted. This was my mom, someone I deeply admired….and she didn’t grasp the basic concept of evolution. I didn’t argue with her, out of respect, but that moment really opened my eyes to the fact that some people truly do go to bed at night believing the Bible stories are literal truth.
For thousands of years in the Christian world, knowledge was considered a sin. Being smart was against God. Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge. Before that humans must have been stupid as fuck apparently.
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Yes
Yes, some people do. I think the amount that think it is literally true is small, they they are out there.
Yes. The far right Christian’s don’t believe in evolution and believe Adam and Eve as the first human’s on earth.
Many do. In Christianity they are seen as being the ones who created original sin. In Islam, Adam is seen as the first prophet. However, Christianity says we have original sin because of them. But Islam says man is born good.
Yes…regarding the complications, they tend to ignore those
All I’ll say is anyone who professes to be Christian and believe the Bible and then say Adam and Eve story is true has more respect from me than people who state they are Christian and then cherry pick what to believe out of the Bible.
literally all humans alive today share mitochondrial dna from one woman, often called “mitochondrial eve.” she wasn’t the only woman alive at the time, but all other maternal lines eventually ended—only hers survived in an unbroken line. this doesn’t mean she was the first human, just the most recent common ancestor through the maternal line.
this isnt the eve the bible talks sbout, but interesting nonetheless. all humans alive today can be traced to one female
There are many that believe it in the literal sense. Putting an exact number to would be, at the least, difficult. But I grew up in a family with many people that did and I’m positive I was far from the only one.
People that do believe it tend to be totally uninterested in the details of how this would work. They simply don’t care about and therefor won’t consider the complications.
What is scary is these people comprise a major voting block in the US. People with absolutely no critical thinking skills whatsoever.
May I introduce you to the “good” folks at Answers in Genesis lol
Kinda interesting to read through their desperate one-sided war against “evolutionists” and their attempts to disprove all the proof that the Biblical narrative of the history of the universe is irrational
All humans descended from one woman named Eve, based on mitochondrial DNA. All males descended from one man named Adam, based on Y chromosome DNA. But This Adam and this Eve never met.
Absolutely, they do.
Yes
Yes some people do and if you then point out that means everyone on the planet is related they go ballistic. I’ve seen it. It’s actually kind of funny
Yes, there’s even a creationist “museum” around here i’ve never stopped at
Almost 30 years ago scientists proved that every living human is descended from one woman that lived in Africa. Something to do with Mitochondria. Not an expert, won’t try to explain it.
Logically, that one woman had one mother, and one father. So, every human being alive has two common ancestors.
The Bible, especially the early old testament gets taken far too literally in places where it is metaphorical or parables(IMHO).
Still it is interesting the parallels it has to what we understand about early human history.
Yes, some people do. Like 40% of the US population. Sorry, correction: Almost half of the population of the US does. 😵💫
Adam lived 960 years. That’s a lot of time to populate the World.
Angels, demons and flying beasts of many heads with bodies covered in eyes too
I’m a Christian… what most of them (us?) don’t realize is that much of the first book of the Bible is not literal.
In the story where Cain kills Abel (the two oldest sons of Adam and Eve), God is about to banish Cain from the region. Cain’s response is to beg for mercy because, once he’s kicked out, someone will immediately kill him.
Um…if they’re the only people alive, why are there roaming droves of barbarians out and about? There are things about our planet and history that we’ll never understand, through science, religion, or otherwise. In the meantime, I’m not going to act like I have all of the answers and that this one book, which had multiple authors, adjustments, and translations, is a literal interpretation of every event it describes.
Reason and logic don’t come into play here. You can’t get a flu shot every year and deny evolution, yet people do. Over half of all Republicans were angry that Obama split with his pastor of 15+ years over gay rights. Over half of Republicans AT THE SAME TIME said that he was a Muslim.
Just accept that people can be absolutely irrational and completely unwilling to accept that a conflict in beliefs exists, or that factually they are clearly wrong. It makes life easier when you don’t waste time on them.
Yes
Billions of people believe this.
It does seem ridiculous, but given that the science does show all humans are descended from one man and one woman, it’s not surprising. Then again, they lived at extremely different times.
Evolution is proven, creation is not.
Technically for believers I think the all coming from only a few happened twice in the Bible
(Adam/eve and then later Noah and fam post flood, for those that believe the full earth was flooded)
Feel free to correct me if that’s not accurate (speaking of the Bible and related beliefs per OP question- not at all trying to prove anything for or against here as that’s futile either way)
No, dont be silly. Askur and Embla were the first two humans, its all in the norse mythology.
I was actually just reading about this a few days ago. They’ve been doing work with mitochondrial DNA for a while now and have determined there was an Eve for all intents and purposes and we all carry her DNA to some degree. In that regard there is an Adam as well, but they are some genetic distance apart from each other and not like some “power couple” that spawned humanity. It was a really interesting article, if a bit heavy on the science.
Yes, they do.
I know a guy, he’s a creationist, but pretty well educated, went to university, did sciences.
I’m not sure how he reconciles this stuff in his head, or just ignores it, or whatever, but he believes that the earth is 6,000 years old, dinosaurs aren’t real, all the rest of it.
For sure. Some still believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old because the Bible told them so.
Yes
Unfortunately yes.
Yes, and there are plenty of people who think the earth is only 6,000 years old.
Yes. I used to be one of them. Well into adulthood. 🫠
Bible Belt. They’d think you’re insane for not thinking that every human being of every race and ethnicity are descedants of Adam and Eve.
I think some people choose to believe it, because they think they’ll go to Hell if they don’t.
I’m Catholic, and definitely not a fundamentalist. I read that the Adam and Eve story was first adopted by Jews, who borrowed it from the Pagans, who made it up to tell their children. Their attitude was “it’s just a story.” I read this in a book; please do not accuse me of spreading shit. I’m merely paraphrasing what this book said about the subject.
Yes. But to be honest, Adam and Eve isn’t the most unbelievable thing about the Christian Bible.
Yea they def do
Yes, they are called creationists. I believe they have entire subreddits lol
yes
Yes. Simpler explanations are easier to grasp so people tend to cling to them. Making them a matter of religious belief makes this effect more powerful.
Yes
What we do know is that mitochondrial DNA comes from one female source. So there is that.
Yes. And I know someone who, in all seriousness, believes dinosaurs became extinct because they were too big to fit on Noah’s Ark.
I grew up Catholic but could never reconcile how two people could be the source of all humans…black, white, Asian, etc.
Unfortunately
There are people that think the entire universe revolves around Earth. So yes.
“Do some people really believe…?”
The answer is always yes, no matter how you end this question.
Yes. Most don’t, the ones who do are pretty loud.
The terms have some scientific merit to be fair, “mitochondrial Eve” refers to the most recent female human from whom we all inherit mitochondrial DNA, and there’s a similar male human (I forget his name) from whom all modern Y-chromosome carrying humans descend. In a sense there was an “Adam” and an “Eve,” but they were not alive at the same time and they were not the first or only humans alive at the time.
and big scary man in the sky? yep.
Yes, absolutely.
Omg yes. Any evangelical type of church preaches it and everyone accepts it as gospel. Don’t you dare ask logical questions though. That means you’re lacking faith and doubting god.
Mormons very much believe this. The Adam and Eve story is a foundational part of the Mormon temple experience. Also, Mormons believe that the literal Garden of Eden was located in Jackson County, Missouri.
You don’t understand, you aren’t supposed to take the Bible literally… just the bits that are convenient
Morons, sure.
adam and eve had two sons. so incest is the only answer
My hang up with this is that they only had male children. Which would mean their mom was the only option for procreation. Their children would have also been their siblings.
there is no god
It’s probably the majority in the US unfortunately
Yes. My trump-voting grandma, for example.
Yes. I was on a date once with a girl that made it clear she believed in that story in the most literal way possible. She also believed the earth was only 4000 years old or something like that.
I told her to get out of my house
If people believe that Noah’s Ark is a true story, they shouldn’t be able to vote.
Look, I get that the scientists have their theories, but the Bible which is a series of stories translated through 117 generations across 23 languages is verified fact.
Used to be one myself (was raised that way). Looking back, my brain lowkey hurt all the time from cognitive dissonance from trying to compute how that could be true (for instance, did their offspring commit incest? If not where did the other people come from?)
What I did for a long while is just give up and trust that God somehow made it all work.
Fortunately I ended up deciding to rake it all through the coals and had to admit to myself it really didn’t make any sense (not just the Adam and Eve thing but the whole God thing too).
Did you know that the book of Matthew uses an erroneous translation for one of the central messianic prophecies?
Matthew 2:3-6 NIV (6 is the relevant quote)
3When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. 5“In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
6“ ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.
Vs
Micah 5:2 NIV (original quote)
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
though you are small among the clans[a] of Judah,
out of you will come for me
one who will be ruler over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,
from ancient times.”
If you plug in the accurate wording it stops making sense, contextually its about a conflict with the Assyrians, not at all about the messiah.
Iirc it has to do with the commonly available translation of the “old testament” at the time having gone through a few layers of translation into greek and thus the verse’s wording changed a bit.
Stuff like this broke the camels back. If God can’t even make sure the people writing his stuff down quote his other stuff properly he certainly couldn’t make an impossible incest situation work and probably just doesn’t exist in the first place.
My mother does. In a very literal way.
Got 1 question: In the duplications of Adam and Eve, they have bellybuttons. Explain, please.🧐
Tbf, there did have to be a first homosapien at some point. The mating with the wrong people/homonids worked itself out (Darwinism) over time.
Yes, there are people that believe that the creation myth they were raised with is literally true. Of course there’s lots of complications and it makes no sense if you really look into it.
To be perfectly frank, we’re just animals. Logic and rationality are absolutely not the fundamental nature of our being, they are things that we can develop and focus on. And no matter how rational we think we are, we all selectively apply or don’t apply it to different aspects of our life.
Science says evolution so at some point, the race came from two individuals so what’s so hard to believe that they were named Adam and Eve
Did they have bellybuttons?
Well, yes some do, and some have alternate takes on it, like for example, to me, ‘eve’ or ‘adam’ were the first ever true human. Similar to how the egg came before the chicken. The first ever modern human, could be considered ‘adam’ or ‘eve’
Do some people really believe they came from fish
Rather than Adam and Eve, wouldn’t it instead be the boat people? Noah, his wife and their sons? I thought the flood wiped everyone else out.
(I’m not a Christian, clearly.)
There is also a theory that all of our ancestral lines go back to one woman in Africa. While I don’t believe in Adam and Eve, if this theory is ever proven true it wouldn’t be that different from the Adam and Eve one.
my parents told me they did when i was pretty young and learning about evolution in school. even i knew something was up at the time. i think the only thing i can chalk it up to is a complete disinterest in either how it is that adam and eve made man or how evolution works, so they just pick the one in line with their religion. baffling in my opinion
Yes.
Yep. I went to college and had a roommate who was one of them.
Literally believed that Adam and Eve were first humans, Earth and universe created in six days (plus seventh day of rest) on some day just over 6000 years ago in October, animals exactly as is. Hell, dude even thought everything was vegan until the fall of Eden due to the “sin of death” (or something like that) not existing till the eating of the forbidden fruit. Needless to say, he was homeschooled by very fundamentalist Christian parents.
Dude flunked out after a year.
As a raised catholic, now agnostic: yes.
I even asked my parents a few times and in school if Dinosaurs existed then where does it fit with creation? I think I was told creation happened before the dinosaurs and then I asked where are the humans? Then after was convinced that when the asteroid hit the dinosaurs, God then did creation and then came Adam and eve. I don’t remember if I convinced myself this or was told this. But it’s confusing when schools teach both creation and the existence of Dinosaurs because it’s very inconsistent.
Yes 100% there are they are called religious many religions follow the belief that all humans came from just two a male and a female and that somehow avoided incest which makes no mathematical or logical sense.
Reminds me of a Robin Williams joke about how some people take stuff to be ‘The Word.’
“In the beginning, ‘let there be light,’ could that be a metaphor for the Big Bang?”
“No, God just went ‘click.’”
“…so you’re saying we’re all descended from Adam and Eve, that means we’re all cousins?”
“That’s right.” cue banjo
Hi OP I was one of those people. If you want to know what it’s like to be ingrained in science denial and claw your way out feel free to reach out to me or find me live on twitch to talk about it. Always happy to share 🙂
We don’t have dress this up. Yes. Because everybody is born ignorant and we are lazy by nature, some people stick with the first explanation for things that they ever get (usually from parents who were born ignorant and lazily stuck with their first explanation). Education and curiosity can break this cycle, but they’re not as widely available as we like to think.
I sure don’t in my culture (Lakota) we believe we originated from an eagle and a woman that’s the closest thing we got🤷🏽♂️
Plenty. I was raised in Young Earth Creationism. There’s no logic to it, just a lot of twisting of scripture to make things fit. The Bible contradicts this in Genesis; Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel and then later a son, Seth, in that order, and of course other sons and daughters, later on. But after Cain slew Abel he went to Nod, took a wife, and gave birth to a son. So where did the wife come from? Certainly not Adam’s brood. He was cast out.
It takes a lot more faith to believe the Earth is 6000 years old than to accept facts.
Yes.
Source: was raised in a denomination that believed the Bible was literal and inerrant
Some people really believe the earth is flat 😑
Yes, although many Christians do manage to merge that belief with evolutionary origins for humans
Yes. My dad doesn’t want me to study anthropology because he believes it’s a pseudoscience and evolution is just “an opinion.”
Literally billions. And it’s so laughable.
I view it as a metaphor, it is crazy some people believe it literally though. It’s more symbolic than scientific obviously
And the Earth is only 2025 years old.
People are stupid that way.
Just Trump voters
OH.
I remember I asked this question in Sunday School, as a child less than 10 years old, “If the world started with just two people doesn’t that mean we’re all inbred?”
The answer was the classic, “Anything is possible with God.”
Couldn’t make since to me.
Naturally, its also believed that some descendants bred with monkeys and that’s how you got incels like maga.
Still public school in the US (Texas for example) that teach this
It is a ridiculous thought
Yes. Some people also believe the Garden of Eden was in Jackson County, Mississippi. They also believe that Native Americans migrated to the U.S. from Israel.
Yes, some people are very uneducated or miseducated.
Apparently. And ‘ncest is ok in the bibble. Among other nonsense
A dishearteningly large number of people, unfortunately. Not that the belief itself is unfortunate, but rather the tendencies of most of the people who believe it.
Yes, but it doesn’t mean they’re stupid. My dad believes this and he has a doctorate and is one of the best critical thinkers I know and is always researching things. I think I could probably get him to change his mind on this if I really pressed him. (He is not a “young earther,” btw.)
Yes there is over 8 billion people alive and some are very stupid
Honestly idk. My catholic mother seems to believe it in both a literal and metaphorical sense depending on the day. It’s weird.
There is probably a genetic “Adam and eve” one pair of human beings all humans are descended from. As far as a garden with a snake and a tree or whatever that’s debatable lol
Yes, and the gullible also love to go on vacation to the giant ark in Kentucky because they believe that nonsense, too.
Yes, some people are stupid 🤷🏻
Yes and they chose the US President in 2/3 of the last 3 elections
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Yes—but won’t believe dinosaurs existed.
My mom is the sweetest lady ever and has always bent over backwards for my sister and me. But there’s one thing she said that still makes me question her reasoning and intellect to this day.
We were raised in the church. Every Sunday without fail. I have always been fascinated by science, biology, dinosaurs, and animals. Even as a kid, I could tell that the stories they told in church weren’t literally true. I assumed they were just moral lessons or symbolic thing. I also figured everyone else knew that too.
One day after church, when I was about 11 or 12, the topic of creationism came up. I had just read a library book about evolution and was telling my mom all about how humans are descendants of great apes and that we share something like 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees. I thought it was so interesting.
My mom then said, “I don’t think that’s how we came to be. If humans came from apes, how come there aren’t humans walking out of the jungles all the time?”
As a middle-schooler, I was completely flabbergasted. This was my mom, someone I deeply admired….and she didn’t grasp the basic concept of evolution. I didn’t argue with her, out of respect, but that moment really opened my eyes to the fact that some people truly do go to bed at night believing the Bible stories are literal truth.
For thousands of years in the Christian world, knowledge was considered a sin. Being smart was against God. Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge. Before that humans must have been stupid as fuck apparently.
SOME people, yes. MOST people, no.
Lots of profoundly stupid people out there. And they vote.
Yes some do.