The idea of The Ark and its passengers is almost as impossible to believe... wouldn't there have been every insect pairing, too? And what about Orcas and dolphins - how would they have survived with it raining cats and dogs non-stop?
No, nothing like that. Eden didn't contain the first humans; it was just Yahweh's little chunk of the planet- remember that the Jews didn't become monotheistic until the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem, and were henotheists before that.
You see this in Cain, exiled for slaying his brother, saying "Other men" would kill him, at a time when (as per the Bible) there was only one other man, his father.
@Rabscuttle not at all. You need to learn that not everything you read is true. And that some of the guys who claim mythology are talking at the back of the head. Some of us are a bit too educated to believe them
Eight thousand million started from the children of one unmarried couple who'd committed the sin of discovering something unspecified that humans are not meant to know...
@ArishMell Exactly. And Moses had his own shot with his meeting on the Mount with God when he got the ten commandments. (It seems there are actually over 70 commandments if you dig deep enough. But the Editor apparently wanted something snappier.) [media=https://youtu.be/nXeTsWGPT0w]
Even some evolutionists believe that the human race is starting from a single couple. The numbers in the Bible old Testament should not be taken as anything more than approximations