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¶ And Adam called his wife’s name Eve;
because she was the mother of all living.
Acts
17:26 And hath made of one blood all
nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined
the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
All
human beings are descended from Eve. Modern science, even in its limited
perspective of evidence and opinion that overthrows one set of theories after
another in their attempts to explain history without admitting to God,
understands that there is one human woman who is the mother of all people alive
today. They call her “Mitochondrial Eve.”
All
human beings are related, cousins, in a manner of speaking. So the New Guinea
hill person and the gaucho-cattle ranch worker in Argentina and Uruguay, the
Bantu in Africa, and the proudest American are all distant cousins.
Adam
had not lost the right to name the world around him. He gave names to all
creatures and here he gave a name to his wife. This has been a source of
confusion in modern times. Some skeptics take the classifications of animals
made up after the Bible was put to paper as a reason to say the Bible is in
error. They read back their own naming of creatures back into the Bible and
then object to God’s classifications.
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