The story of Adam and Eve is an allegory; there is absolutely no possibility that life could have started this way anyway.
Life did not begin 6,000 years ago. In fact, the ancient Sumerians already had an advanced civilization at this time.
There is a funny recent article at the onion about how the Sumerians were startled by God announcing the creation of the world 6,000 years ago.
Of course, this doesn't mean that you have to be an atheist,because there is absolutely no conflict between belief in an ancient earth and evolution with belief in God.
If Adam and Eve had two sons, how did the world get populated, since there were no other women for them to marry, unless they mated with their mother, which is extremely improbable?
The story of the serpent and the tree with forbidden truth is also an allegory, as well as Noah and the Ark. The notion that we can actually find this Ark in what is now the mountains of eastern Turkey makes no more sense then the idea that we can actually find Santa Claus at the north pole.
Life did not begin 6,000 years ago. In fact, the ancient Sumerians already had an advanced civilization at this time.
There is a funny recent article at the onion about how the Sumerians were startled by God announcing the creation of the world 6,000 years ago.
Of course, this doesn't mean that you have to be an atheist,because there is absolutely no conflict between belief in an ancient earth and evolution with belief in God.
If Adam and Eve had two sons, how did the world get populated, since there were no other women for them to marry, unless they mated with their mother, which is extremely improbable?
The story of the serpent and the tree with forbidden truth is also an allegory, as well as Noah and the Ark. The notion that we can actually find this Ark in what is now the mountains of eastern Turkey makes no more sense then the idea that we can actually find Santa Claus at the north pole.