In Monday Begins Saturday, the Strugatsky brothers made an ingenious attempt to reconcile Darwin's theory with the concept of the divine origin of man:
As you can see, in this comic passage, Adam and Eve are not the first and not the only relatively intelligent beings.
The most interesting thing, when you read the biblical text (very sparing of details), does not leave the feeling that Adam and Eve are not alone on planet Earth.
Here are some passages that have puzzled theologians for centuries.
So, Eve treated Adam to the forbidden fruit, God was angry with them and drove them out of paradise:
The question arises: from whom is the winged sentry guarding the tree? Agree, it is very difficult to imagine that Adam and Eve will make a second attempt to break into the Garden of Eden to the ill-fated fruit.
Then Adam and Eve have sons, Cain and Abel. Cain kills Abel and God punishes him, saying that he will wander forever.
Here is Cain's response:
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Here, to be honest, everything is mysterious. What does it mean to be an exile if people have long been expelled from Eden and the rest of the earth is completely empty? And most importantly - who can kill Cain ? Maybe a cave bear, but it seems to be about people.
God promised that no one would kill him, and then :
This place is a real puzzle for theologians. Where did Cain get a spouse?.. Either it is his sister, the fact of whose birth is carefully hushed up by the Old Testament, or there was someone else on the planet after all …
But even if we accept the delicate option with a sister, the question still remains - why should a married couple build a city?
(Against the background of all these mysteries, the amazing circumstance that Cain, despite all the misadventures, managed by some miracle to learn to be an architect, fades.)
Because of all these reservations, versions were put forward about the existence of the Pre-Adamites (that is, Adam was still not the first) or the Co-Adamites (Adam was not the only one). Or, after all, Adam and Eve had more extensive offspring, despite the fact that only three sons are mentioned: Cain, Abel and Seth.
