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“Where Did Cain Get His Wife?”
We think in rigidly literalistic, chronological, hyper-logical terms. Ancient Hebrew thought (incl. the story of Cain) was practical, pastoral, concrete, & non-chronological.
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The Scientific Possibility of Adam and Eve
Until the advent of Darwinian evolution, most Christians believed that the entire human race actually descended from our literally-real first parents, Adam and Eve. Many still do. In 1950, Pope Pius XII issued an encyclical, Humani Generis, in which he wrote that “revealed truth and … the magisteri
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