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  2. Adam and Eve - Wikipedia

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    Gnostics discussed Adam and Eve in two known surviving texts, namely the "Apocalypse of Adam" found in the Nag Hammadi documents and the Testament of Adam. The creation of Adam as Protoanthropos, the original man, is the focal concept of these writings. Another Gnostic tradition held that Adam and Eve were created to help defeat Satan.

  3. Mitochondrial Eve - Wikipedia

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    In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve (more technically known as the Mitochondrial-Most Recent Common Ancestor, shortened to mt-Eve or mt-MRCA) is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all living humans. In other words, she is defined as the most recent woman from whom all living humans descend in an unbroken line purely ...

  4. The Monkey Suit - Wikipedia

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    "The Monkey Suit" is an episode that tackles the creation–evolution controversy, [7] and according to Theresa Sanders in her book Approaching Eden: Adam and Eve in Popular Culture, "skewered antievolution legislation."

  5. Theistic evolution - Wikipedia

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    Adamic exceptionalism: The acceptance of evolution, only making an exception for Adam and Hawa (Eve). It asserts that Adam was the first theologically accurate human. However, taxonomically accurate humans or human-like beings already existed on Earth before their arrival.

  6. Fall of man - Wikipedia

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    Adam, Eve, and a female serpent at the entrance to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France.The portrayal of the image of the serpent as a mirror of Eve was common in earlier Christian iconography as a result of the identification of women as the ones responsible for the fall of man and source of the original sin.

  7. Acceptance of evolution by religious groups - Wikipedia

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    So, both true and pseudo humans serve or served a purpose". This would also mean that Adam and Hawa and their descendants played a crucial role in shaping human evolution as hybridization would drastically change the future generations. So, human evolution would've gone into a completely different direction without them.

  8. Eve's Diary - Wikipedia

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    "Eve's Diary" is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar , in book format as one contribution to a volume entitled "Their Husband's Wives" and then in June 1906 as a standalone book by Harper and Brothers [ 1 ] publishing house.

  9. Original sin - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of the sin of Adam and Eve (The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens). Original sin (Latin: peccatum originale) in Christian theology refers to the condition of sinfulness that all humans share, which is inherited from Adam and Eve due to the Fall, involving the loss of original righteousness and the distortion of the Image of God. [1]