A reasonable reading of Genesis 1:26 suggests that Adam and Eve were not the first humans created. Adam and Eve were the humans created to live in the Garden of Eden, but the Bible never claims they were the only humans at the time.
If other humans existed elsewhere, that would explain Genesis 4:14. If there were no other humans besides the first four, what exactly was Cain afraid of? That would also explain where Cain got his wife.
So Clarence Darrow was right? Somebody was having another Creation over in the next county?
A reasonable reading of Genesis 1:26 suggests that Adam and Eve were not the first humans created.
Nonsense.
Buy a Bible and read it carefully.
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Interesting. I never thought of it that way.
“If other humans existed elsewhere, that would explain Genesis 4:14. If there were no other humans besides the first four, what exactly was Cain afraid of? That would also explain where Cain got his wife.”
We are told that Adam and Eve had other sons and daughters. These and their offspring are the ones of whom Cain was afraid. It would also be from among these that Cain got his wife. No reason to think otherwise.
Incestuous relationships were not inherently sinful. They only became unadvisable after the degenerative effects of sin had had an effect. The first few generations would have shown very little of the future ill effects.