# Adam and Eve's childrens/childrens/children....... **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 28, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-and-eves-childrens-childrens-children/656883 "2013-04-28T03:25:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2013, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-and-eves-childrens-childrens-children/656883/41 "2013-05-05T00:02:28Z")
> [@Askthepizzaguy](#): > > It is my understanding that Cain went off and found a wife. Somebody must have been holding another Creation in the next county over. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-and-eves-childrens-childrens-children/656883/42 "2013-05-05T02:54:44Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I knew someone would get nitpicky on that. I used “blood related” to distinguish between Noah and his sons, which are directly related, and Noah and his sons wives who only have some common ancestors. . . . I think the poster I was responding to forgot that the wives came from before the flood. Someone once said that murderers are the descendants of Cain, while the rest of us (us?) aren’t. In this scenario, could that make sense? Say one of Noah’s sons’ wives was descended from Cain, while the others weren’t… Could (conceivably) the human race divide itself into such subpopulations? (Leave aside plausibility; I’m thinking of it more like a math question…) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-and-eves-childrens-childrens-children/656883/43 "2013-05-05T05:59:23Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Someone once said that murderers are the descendants of Cain, while the rest of us (us?) aren’t. In this scenario, could that make sense? Say one of Noah’s sons’ wives was descended from Cain, while the others weren’t… Could (conceivably) the human race divide itself into such subpopulations? > > (Leave aside plausibility; I’m thinking of it more like a math question…) Given that murderers often have siblings who are not murderers, I fail to see how this idea could have any credibility under any circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-and-eves-childrens-childrens-children/656883/44 "2013-05-05T06:27:19Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Given that murderers often have siblings who are not murderers, I fail to see how this idea could have any credibility under any circumstances. Well, okay, throw that part out. Is it possible that all murderers have a descent from Cain, while large portions of the population don’t? i.e., is the “Sons of Cain” concept conceivably meaningful? Again, simply from a mathematics standpoint: could the topology be made to work? Is it meaningful to look at a crowd of people and think, “Some of those people are Children of Cain, while others aren’t?” Or, since murderers are pretty much in every human society, would the descent have gotten all mixed up by now, and everyone would be 1/4 Cainite? (This might be comparable to the study of surnames, and how some family names like “Smith” manage to become very well populated, while others, like “Kricafalusi” are somewhat more rare.) (And, ultimately, it’s a digression. Don’t mind too much.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-and-eves-childrens-childrens-children/656883.md?page=2)