• Smuuthbrane
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    252 years ago

    I have a theory, but I’m betting nobody truly wants to hear it.

    • Sabre363
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      282 years ago

      I bet it has something to do with Adam and Eve being fictional characters in the mythological texts of a bunch of hokey religions.

      • Smuuthbrane
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        122 years ago

        The labour was 7 days long. After that He invented the epidural.

      • Smuuthbrane
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        62 years ago

        Humanoids already existed (think slightly more advanced Neanderthal types). Adam and Eve were both of these, but they were changed (flash of inspiration, touch of God, random mutation, take your pick) effectively elevated them above that level. (God evolved his Pokemon. LOL) So, while they were “created” as many and woman, they had a standard mammalian birth, and thus each have a bellybutton.

        Just a hypothesis, nothing more. Do with it as you will.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            That is possible because once population reduced to around thousands people, right? I think the “legend” of Adam and Eve might symbolize the ancient times. Ofc, might not be but-

        • @[email protected]
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          262 years ago

          As an evolutionary biologist I promise you that this makes way more sense in your head than it makes in actual reality. This is not how evolution works.

          • Smuuthbrane
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            22 years ago

            Not claiming this is evolution. Far from it, that would happen on a much longer timescale and not affect only 2 individuals. You’re focusing on the wrong aspect of my theory.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 years ago

              Okay, on what aspect of your theory should I focus? There is no support for a sudden transition to “intelligence.” It’s literally all continuous to the point that people are studying the learned and taught moral rules among chimpanzee and baboon populations.

              • Smuuthbrane
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                22 years ago

                The aspect where I posit how they have bellybuttons.

                I never claimed they gained intelligence, only they they became differentiated from the wider population. What amount of differentiation is not specified.

                • @[email protected]
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                  22 years ago

                  They literally didn’t become differentiated in the way you’re postulating. It’s a continuum. That’s my point.

                  I’ve taught this course.

            • @[email protected]
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              92 years ago

              My point is that it makes no sense in the framework of reality and that you might as well go with the literal story of Adam and Eve or whatever mythology you want, because throwing Neanderthals into the mix does fuck all in terms of making anything believable. It’s literally as scientifically justified as the Norse creation myth about a giant cow licking salty ice to uncover the gods.