Were there any human beings before Adam and Eve?

Answer 1

According to Genesis 1&2, the answer is NO. According to most Biology textbooks, who the heck are Adam and Eve?

(Biology textbooks sometimes use the term "Mitochondrial Eve" to refer to a hypothetical woman who is in the ancestry of every living human, and a similar "Y-chromosomal Adam" to refer to a hypothetical male who is everybody's great-to-the-umptieth grandfather. However, all the evidence suggests that if these people actually existed, they lived thousands of years apart, with "Eve" being the earlier by probably 50,000 years.)

Answer 2

Other Answers from our community:

• No. According to the Biblical Creation, Adam was the first human, created by the Lord on the 6th day. Eve was the first woman.

• One could interpret the story of Adam and Eve (the first man and woman) as being the first to know good from evil (eating from the tree of knowledge between good and evil being a symbol of this).

• There are essentially two models which answer this question.

  The first model is the creation account from the Bible, which records that Adam and Eve constitute the first and only humans created 'in the beginning' as part of God's original creation. In the case of the people of course, already created elements were used as constituent parts of both Adam and Eve.

  Under a second model, Adam and Eve were not the first people. Under this model, which has very scant and conflicting evidence, there are various proposed people existing before Adam and Eve.

• The wording in Genesis Chapter 4, which clearly identifies the technologies existing within a few generations of Adam and Eve, suggests that they were certainly not the first people. These technologies took many thousands of years to develop, not just a few generations. The belief that Adam and Eve were the first people became erroneously insitutionalized in Christian dogma before the sciences of Paleontology and Archaeology existed and with a correct interpretation of the Book of Genesis, using its own words, most of the conflicts between science and theology disappear. God plainly and clearly states that animals were made on Day 5. Man is an animal. On Day 6, He says, NOW let us make man in Our image. That's like Henry Ford saying Now let us make Model Ts in colors other than black. Of course Ford made Model Ts before, as God made men before.

• There is no need for any reason to postulate the existence of anyone before Adam and Eve. It creates more problems than it solves in terms of the evidence. The absence of multi-billions of human remains if human history was as long as claimed would then require explanation. Also, the human population is also far too small and actually matches, conservatively, the c.6000 years of earth history that the Bible proposes.
• Genesis 4 makes it CLEAR that Cain went to build not a home or a farm or a village or a town, but a CITY. For whom? The land of Nod is mentioned, meanig the existence of political delineations. For whom?

  Another close descendant teaches the harp and the organ. To teach music there must be multiple instruments, a repertoire, students, and, of course, audience demand.

• Undoubtedly. The time ascribed to Adam and Eve is only around 6000 years ago, while science tells us that modern humans evolves over 200,000 years ago, and that our earliest hominid ancestors lived about seven million years ago.The major Christian denominations accept the scientific evidence for evolution over the scientifically defined timescales. For example, the position of the Episcopal Church is :"The Episcopal Church has said that the theory of evolution does not conflict with Christian faith. In 2006, the General Convention affirmed, via Resolution A129, that God is creator and added that "the theory of evolution provides a fruitful and unifying scientific explanation for the emergence of life on earth, that many theological interpretations of origins can readily embrace an evolutionary outlook, and that an acceptance of evolution is entirely compatible with an authentic and living Christian faith."

Answer 3

There were. Adam and Eve were not the first humans. It's unclear whether or not they were real people.

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No, Adam was the first man and Eve the first woman. But there were other people on earth after them, some think that all people descended from Adam and Eve, but that is not so, because after Cain killed Abel, he fears for his life because the OTHERS might kill him if they find out.

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No, he was the first man on earth.

Answer 4

The Bible says no. Adam and Eve only appear in the Bible, so we have no way of knowing.

For those who don't quite believe in the historical accuracy of the Bible, Adam and Eve refers to the first humans whatever they might have called themselves, and as we have no record of their existence we refer to them as Adam and Eve.

Evolution says that we evolved from a previous non-human animal, but the stage at which 'human' could b accurately applied is vague. When one species evolves into another it is usually difficult to identify the exact point at which the new species has 'emerged'.

Answer 5

* Modern humans have lived on Earth for over 200,000 years, and our hominin ancestors evolved over the previous seven million years. The story of Adam and Eve took place some 6,000 years ago. So, yes, there were humans before the time attributed to Adam and Eve. == == * It depends on your worldview:mankind did not evolve over millions of years, but instead Adam and Eve were created by God in 4004BC [Ussher] making it also approximately 6000 years ago. So, no, there were no humans before Adam and Eve.

* Adam had a wife before Eve, thought by some to be mentioned in the Bible but not explained. She was dismissed because she wasn't subservient.

Answer 6

Many who believe the Bible say no. However, there is a school of Biblical thought that would say that there was a race of man-like creatures living on the earth before Adam. Try googling terms like "Pre-adamic race" or G.H. Pember. This race, ruled by Lucifer, rebelled with the fallen angles, and was destroyed by God in a great world-wide flood (there were two floods. Again, Google it for more information).

This interpretation of the Bible allows for the observed geologic ages of the earth without admitting compromise or acquiescence to Darwinism or other non-theistic theories of origin. The fossils of early human-like creatures, like Neanderthal, etc., are the remains of this earlier time before Adam.

Those who don't believe the Bible don't necessarily accept that there had to be as 'first' pair of humans at some point, but they tend to believe that humanity was a gradual evolutionary change from some pre-existing species.

Answer 7

The story of "Adam and Eve" was created by humans. Those humans existed before "Adam and Eve" did on a conceptual level. If we want to pretend that stories are true, the answer is still yes. A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, humans fought an epic war, between an over zealous galactic empire and a group of rebel teams, who's victory was aided by the help of the scruffy rogue Han Solo and the young Jedi knight, Luke Skywalker.

Answer 8

We do not know who was the first person to live, but it was long before the time attributed to Adam and Eve.Humans evolved millions of years ago in Africa and our primitive ancestors gradually migrated to Europe, Asia and elsewhere. There is ample evidence of this process and skeletal remains of a large number of primitive individuals have been found and dated scientifically. For this reason, many Jews and Christians do not believe that the story of Adam and Eve needs to be taken literally.

Answer 9

Yes

According to the Genesis story, the world was created on the 1st day and Adam and Eve were created on the 6th day.

Answer 10

The only thing before Adam and Eve was God and the other animals