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Originally Posted by RandyWayne
Well, Cain's wife was his sister (or even niece). There is not an issue with this because the genetic pool was so new and non spoiled that it would not cause problems for people who were very closely related to produce offspring. This is also the reason they lived so long, at least for a few generations.
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I never have really bought this...doesn't the Bible say that Cain got his wife east of the Euphrates? I don't think we started incestually, I'm pretty sure this has been largely disproved? Bottlenecks are traceable in the DNA, or something?