Brands, in his usual excellent article, writes "There is no record that Adam and Eve ever formally married." Although a Christian, I'm not a fundamentalist and don't believe the Adam, Eve, talking snake story in the Hebrew scriptures. Some fundamentalists call that the "domino theory of religion": Doubt the Adam and Eve story and pretty soon you'll doubt the Resurrection. Some theologians try to reconcile the truth of the scriptural creation story with evolution. But as the philosopher Bertrand Russell points out in one of his essays, that also presents problems. He asks humorously "at what stage of his development did Neanderthal Man become capable of eternal damnation?"
Brands, in his usual excellent article, writes "There is no record that Adam and Eve ever formally married." Although a Christian, I'm not a fundamentalist and don't believe the Adam, Eve, talking snake story in the Hebrew scriptures. Some fundamentalists call that the "domino theory of religion": Doubt the Adam and Eve story and pretty soon you'll doubt the Resurrection. Some theologians try to reconcile the truth of the scriptural creation story with evolution. But as the philosopher Bertrand Russell points out in one of his essays, that also presents problems. He asks humorously "at what stage of his development did Neanderthal Man become capable of eternal damnation?"