Do you think Adam and Eve looked and acted like modern day humans?

Question

Also, other early Biblical figures? Were they like us today or has the physical features of homosapiens changed over the years since then?

Answer 1

Sure we looked like them as He created man from his image.  We are just a lot dirtier (lots of sin).

Answer 2

No bellybuttons.

Answer 3

If Adam and Eve were the first humans, then they must have looked very much like apes.

Homo-sapiens have not changed much in 10,000 years except their height is greater and they have better nutrition and health and dental care.

Answer 4

I believe that Adam and Eve are archetypes developed to explain man's presence and dominance on the Earth to people in ancient society.  God, knowing that man wouldn't be able to grasp the science of the development of homo sapiens as a species used his ability to inspire the writers of Genesis.  Adam and Eve are a simplified version of the beginnings of society and civilization.  They may not have actually existed as people, but they did exist as a concept.  They were the "first" modern people.  

If you are a literalist and believe in a complete literal interpretation of the Bible, then you must also believe that they looked and acted just like us.  In a literalist view of the world, the Earth is only 6000 or so years old.  Not much chance for change, eh?

Jay

Answer 5

You do realise Adam and Eve are characters in a story dont you? They weren't actually real people.

Answer 6

they didn't actually exist

Answer 7

Your question is unanswerable - one of the very basic tenants of physical anthropology is that we have evolved from lower life forms. That would be like asking a Creationist about the Big Bang.

If you're asking if they looked and acted like us, then yes, 6,000 years is not a very significant time span in terms of evolution. However, believing in Adam and Even and also believing in evolution...the two directly contradict one another.

Perhaps you could elaborate as to exactly what you want to know?

Answer 8

Granted that was then,this is now.They had two arms,two legs,and one head.Other than that who knows?God made them,God made us.

Answer 9

Did Adam have a belly button?  Did Eve? Otherwise, one could assume they resembled people for the simple fact, if they existed, they were reportedly people.

Answer 10

I saw Adam and Eve at the bar yesterday. They were downing shooters like everybody else.

Answer 11

If there were two legendary individuals by that name, they would have had to have lived at the beginning, or slightly before the inception of the Jewish Calendar, which is dated to, ca.3751 BCE...making them appx. 6000 years old, in which case, they would have to be anatomically modern H.sapiens, just like us...

Answer 12

They didn't exist.

Answer 13

Adam and Eve never existed.  It is clearly just a story and it isn't scientifically or logically possible.  They had no daughters and two humans weren't created.  We evolved from other apes.  Yes, the common ancestor was an ape to all of you who were taught that we didn't evolve from apes.

Answer 14

NO WE ARE BASED OFF THEM I THINK THAT GOD MADE ADAM TO LOOK LIKE BOYS BUT THEY DID CHANGE FROM YEARS BC OF MOTHER AND FATER GENES SO I THINK THEY DID LOOKED LIKE US (kinda)