Where Did
Cain Find His Wife?
The following is the paraphrased essence of
one of the critical junctures in American history. The scene is the 1925 Scopes
Monkey Trial and defense attorney Clarence Darrow had goaded prosecuting
attorney Williams Jennings Bryan to take the stand in defense of the Bible.
"Mr. Bryan, the defense has one final question, 'Where did Cain find a
wife?' "
"I don't know."
"Could you repeat your answer Mr. Bryan? The entire nation is listening
via radio broadcast and this is a pretty basic and simple question. Let me
rephrase it. If, as the Bible claims, Adam and Eve were the first man and
women, and no other people existed, who did their son Cain find to marry?"
"I don't know."
Darrow made Bryan appear foolish because he did not know scripture well
enough to defend the most basic of questions:
This trial marked a turning point in American education because for the
first time the Bible was openly ridiculed. Bryan's inability to answer simple
and logical questions was one factor allowing the American educational establishment
to accept evolution hook, line, and sinker while rejecting the historical
creation account of the Bible.
Even today most Christians do not know the answer to questions as basic as
"Where did Cain find a wife?" The problem with not having reasonable
answers to basic questions is that it brings all of Christianity into question.
Why should people believe in a God whom they cannot see, if believers in that
God cannot answers life's simplest questions about the past and our origin?
The reason that the answer to this question is not immediately apparent is
that we have all been trained to think like evolutionists. Evolution was
founded on a principle of modern geology called uniformitarianism. This is the
belief that small changes over vast periods of time caused the massive geologic
(and later Darwin added biological) changes we see around us. In essence, we
are trained to believe that everything has always pretty much operated as we
see it today. However, this is not what the Bible teaches.
The Bible teaches that mankind was created perfect, without flaws. It was
only after man's disobedience that imperfection entered God's creation. Thus
mankind, as originally created, would not have had the myriad of genetic
mistakes now present on our DNA. In opposition to what evolution teaches,
mutations or mistakes on our DNA, do not lead to better and improved humans.
These mistakes cause hundreds of debilitating illnesses and birth defects. The
reason all of us are not born with enormous numbers of medical problems is
because our genes are a combination of the characteristics of both our parents.
It is only when both parents have the same mistake in their genes that their
children manifest the resulting genetic problem.
Furthermore, these genetic mistakes accumulate and increase with time. In
other words, the information on our DNA gets more garbled - it never increases
in clarity. Since mistakes are accumulating on our DNA, it is logical to assume
that as we go back in time there would be less mistakes. The reason brothers
and sisters cannot marry today is because they are likely to have similar DNA
errors leading to children with birth defects. However, there were no moral
laws against children intermarrying until after the time of Moses
(approximately 4000 years ago). Before that time it was quite common.
The Bible states that Adam and Eve had MANY
sons and daughters. Cain merely married his sister.
The reason we don't realize this obvious answer is because we have been trained
to believe things have always been the way they are today. The current world
becomes far more understandable as we view it through a Biblical perspective,
which acknowledges that the past, has at times, been very different than the
present.
This Article is from Bruce Malone's book Search
for the Truth.
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