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If however they were only actually the first humans on the planet and Eva had two Sons, Cane and Abel. (There is no mention of her having any other kids) so where did all the other humans come from?
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22 May 2014, 12:47 PM
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The answer to the cause of the universe will almost certainly be something strange and, by definition, wholly beyond our experience.
22 May 2014, 12:49 PM
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On the subject of Adam and Eve. They were supposed to be the first living beings on the planet, if this is true then where did the snake come from?
If however they were only actually the first humans on the planet and Eva had two Sons, Cane and Abel. (There is no mention of her having any other kids) so where did all the other humans come from?
If however they were only actually the first humans on the planet and Eva had two Sons, Cane and Abel. (There is no mention of her having any other kids) so where did all the other humans come from?
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Which is why YOU have faith and good luck to you, I personaly believe the science and multi million year old skeletons that have been dug up more than I believe in a book telling us what happened.
22 May 2014, 02:21 PM
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22 May 2014, 02:45 PM
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I dare say text from a couple of millennia ago doesn't constitute absolute proof either. From a time when lack of education, ignorance, barbarism and undeveloped thinking was rife. A time when it was easier to brainwash people by those who had ulterior motives (good and bad). Ironically a situation not too dissimilar to certain so called Islamic states. Faith is good, love is good and hope springs eternal, invest them not in fairy stories but something tangible.
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I dare say text from a couple of millennia ago doesn't constitute absolute proof either. From a time when lack of education, ignorance, barbarism and undeveloped thinking was rife. A time when it was easier to brainwash people by those who had ulterior motives (good and bad). Ironically a situation not too dissimilar to certain so called Islamic states. Faith is good, love is good and hope springs eternal, invest them not in fairy stories but something tangible.
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22 May 2014, 03:16 PM
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Large-scale societies in which strangers regularly engage in mutually beneficial transactions are puzzling. The evolutionary mechanisms associated with kinship and reciprocity, which underpin much of primate sociality, do not readily extend to large unrelated groups. Theory suggests that the evolution of such societies may have required norms and institutions that sustain fairness in ephemeral exchanges. If that is true, then engagement in larger-scale institutions, such as markets and world religions, should be associated with greater fairness, and larger communities should punish unfairness more. Using three behavioral experiments administered across 15 diverse populations, we show that market integration (measured as the percentage of purchased calories) positively covaries with fairness while community size positively covaries with punishment. Participation in a world religion is associated with fairness, although not across all measures. These results suggest that modern prosociality is not solely the product of an innate psychology, but also reflects norms and institutions that have emerged over the course of human history.
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Large-scale societies in which strangers regularly engage in mutually beneficial transactions are puzzling. The evolutionary mechanisms associated with kinship and reciprocity, which underpin much of primate sociality, do not readily extend to large unrelated groups. Theory suggests that the evolution of such societies may have required norms and institutions that sustain fairness in ephemeral exchanges. If that is true, then engagement in larger-scale institutions, such as markets and world religions, should be associated with greater fairness, and larger communities should punish unfairness more. Using three behavioral experiments administered across 15 diverse populations, we show that market integration (measured as the percentage of purchased calories) positively covaries with fairness while community size positively covaries with punishment. Participation in a world religion is associated with fairness, although not across all measures. These results suggest that modern prosociality is not solely the product of an innate psychology, but also reflects norms and institutions that have emerged over the course of human history.
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