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View Poll Results: What race were Adam and Eve? | |||
White | 5 | 23.81% | |
Black | 2 | 9.52% | |
Other | 14 | 66.67% | |
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08-01-2007, 03:44 PM | #21 |
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Other is the only answer.
Race is a modern social construct. As those constructs did not arise out of the time to which we attach an Adam or an Eve, it is impossible for those labels to apply. What was the pigmentation of their skin? How the hell should I know?
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08-01-2007, 03:46 PM | #22 |
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Come on, Arch, get with the program. It's a scientific fact.
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A journalist or two of late have failed to distinguish between the geography that is now enclosed within the state of Missouri and the state itself. To say, "Mormons think the Garden of Eden was in Missouri," is, strictly speaking, false. That Mormon leaders have repeatedly taught that it was in the place that is now within the state of Missouri, is true.
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08-01-2007, 03:48 PM | #25 | |
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1. You believe that the first humans came from Africa ergo 2. Adam and Eve were black Would you care to argue that the aboriginal peoples of North America were black? I don't know what race Adam and Eve were (assuming you could even assign them to one to begin with), but your reasoning on this subject is questionable at best. |
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08-01-2007, 03:55 PM | #26 | |
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I think that a discussion of Adam and Eve would be good and appropriate. Coming to grips with what evolution, the fossil record, and other empirical evidence says in relation to how one should understand Adam and Eve is an important exercise. Also, I think a discussion of the theological implications of Joseph Smith moving the founding stories of creation and covenant to the American continent really interesting. I think a discussion of what that tells us about Joseph Smith's theological impulses and Mormonism would be interesting in well. I think there is lots of room for interesting discussion, but all we are doing now is dividing people into silly theological camps. Last edited by pelagius; 08-01-2007 at 03:57 PM. |
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08-01-2007, 04:11 PM | #29 |
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i thought adam and eve were from another planet.
Kolobians I thought.
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