Adam

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Genesis 2:9 says, "the LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being." This first human being is named Adam, which is a pun on the Hebrew words for "ground" (adama) and "red" (adm). The Genesis story goes on to say that Eve, the first woman, was made from a rib of Adam to be his companion. Many interpret this story as saying that two and only two human beings, Adam and Eve, are the ancestors of all mankind. Science discredits the idea that today's genetic diversity could be the result of just a few thousand years of human existence starting from a population of two (note the founder effect). In the encyclical "Humani Generis" issued in 1950, Pope Pius XII declared that polygenism (disbelief in Adam and Eve) was against the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Many Protestant and Orthodox Christians agree, as the doctrine of original sin is undermined without an original Adam.

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