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Originally posted by sycamore
Where the fuck did Cain's wife come from?
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People have been pestering Creationists with that question a long time.
Their usual answer is that Eve had many sons and daughters, and Cane married a sister. When asked the obvious followup question of why didn't the Bible mention this fact, their answer is that the Bible only mentions Cane as being firstborn as that was significant, but other siblings didn't merit comment.
This sibling marrage causes a very obvious comment - which can be paraphrased as 'dammit, only rednecks marry siblings, and look at what it does to their brats!'
But the argument about incest being morally wrong and having a tendency to cause babies with flippers that talk and act like presidential politicians gets the response that incest only became forbidden later in time, and that the human race was 'genetically purer' at the time of creation - which is also evident as people lived hundreds of years.