Where did the females come from if Adam and Eve had only three sons?

Answer 1

The Bible dose not always show the names of daughters. However, what the Bible does tell us is that he had at least two daughters, although he may well have had more: 4And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

Answer 2

Adam and Eve didn't have just three sons. According to Genesis 5:4, Adam was the father of children other than Cain, Abel, and Seth. The specific phrase is 'other sons and daughters'. So a guesstimate would be the parenting of at least five sons and two daughters by Adam.

Answer 3

Nobody knows for sure. Some have speculated that in a world where sin had not yet firmly taken root, that ince$t would not have been the taboo that it is today. Others have speculated that perhaps Adam & Eve were not the only (first humans), they were the ones the biblical writers chose to focus on. Cain did take a wife from another land (the land of Nod), which would support #2, however the long lifespans in Genesis mean that many generations would have been alive simultaneously) she could have still been a cousin or a great niece or something like that.

Answer 4

Wrong. Adam and Eve had additional sons and daughters, as stated explicitly (Genesis ch.5).

Related question -

What about populating the Earth after the Flood?

According to tradition Noah's three sons and their wives had children after the flood. Even taking disease and wars into account, one couple could populate the Earth in just 3800 years.

Population statisticians estimate that by 1800, there were one billion people living.

From 1800 to 1920, the world's population doubled, reaching 2 billion (see Link). Since then, it has more than tripled again.

In this calculator, starting with the six people ("dollars") mentioned above, adding zero "dollars" per year and assuming just one-half percent growth per year for 3800 years (from the Flood until 1820), we see that one billion people will result by that time. (Since then, the growth rate has increased and is a matter of record).

One-half percent growth is a conservative figure, in line with historical estimates, and allows for dips due to disease or calamity. (Historically, "baby booms" have been noted after events of widespread death.)

Moreover, had there been the thousands of generations of humans which Evolutionary chronology theorizes, we would ask: Where are all the bones? The actual finds, including layers of habitation and other physical signs, are relatively sparse and accord with a recent date of Creation.

See also:

Evidence of the Flood

Lifespans of the ancients

Noah's covenant

Answer 5

Using the story of Adam and Eve to explain the world's population has an even greater problem. The Book of Genesis goes on to say that all humans were wiped out some 1656 years later, apart from Noah, his sons and their wives. We have even less time to populate the world!

What really happened is that humans evolved over the last seven million years, with modern humans evolving, probably in Africa, more than two hundred thousand years ago. In good times, the world's population grew, and in times of famine or disease, we know it actually shrank. However, our ancestors spread and prospered.