Bobinius

First there was only Adam and Eve.

They had two sons in the first place: Cain and Abel.

How did they multiply un-incetsously? Cain gets married with a woman. How does she appear?

The second problem:

Noah and his family. Noah and a wife, 3 sons with their wives. Cloning?!
Or maybe incest was pleasing for God in those days. And he maybe took away the genetical anomalies from the gene pool of Noah and his gang while they were replicating within that very small population.

Indeed, he works in mysterious ways.

Toto

The problem of Cain's wife is an old one.

Check out this thread: Cain did not marry his sister? or just read this post which collects all of the standard religious answers.

Bobinius

Ok.

How about Noah and his family?

Did they multiply incestuosly? What answers are there?

DISSIDENT AGGRESSOR

I'll try this one! An ex-fundy explained it like this.

The flood in the bible only covered what was "known" earth by the people of the bible and did not flood the rest of the world. The flood only affected The people mentioned in the bible and not the continents now known as North&South America.

That sounds logical! [*doing my best CatnipTm impression*]
Do I buy it? No.

Bobinius

Incredible. These guys will bend reason and logic, kill consequence, in order to protect their religious beliefs.

Speachless.

Al Kafirun

Now here's the truth... reproduction at any cost was the ultimate moral of Jewish legend. So to say that the absence of un-related women was a lapse in continuity is an injustice to the perverts who actually redacted the thing. Don't blame them for their gentile groupies being pussies.

Norseman

Ok well let's check all known theist responses to that kind of question, and spin-off for the particular question.

"God works in mysterious ways."

"Look at how long Noah lived, obviously there were very few recessive traits for them to live so long, so incest would have been possible."

"God didn't drown everyone. Only the people in Noah's general region were drowned because god made the flood local. Cain married a decent woman from an area wiithout enough sin for god to kill them. Isn't god benevolent?"

"Check the Bible Code, that'll have your answer."

"I don't know. I'm not all-knowing; this is definitely a sign from God for you to search for His holy truth."


I think that's all the theological bullshit answers...

Al Kafirun

You left out lynching, but yeah...