Your parents shape much of who you are. You got your nose from your dad, your eyes from your mom. You got your stubborn streak from mom and your bluntness from dad. It is imperative for even a basic understanding of your "self" that you spend some time digging in to your family of origin. Even your DNA, that mysterious building block of your life, carries in it strands coming straight from your parents.

If your parents shape your identity in multiple ways, how much do our first parents shape all of us? If understanding our family of origin is important for our medical history and our psychological make up, how much more important is it for us to understand the origin of humanity? Scientists who study DNA have discovered we are all, the whole human race alive today, descended from one mother, who they believe lived somewhere in Africa. Though some of those scientists might cringe at the thought, they provide some small strands of evidence for what the Bible says in its opening chapters. Though many believe Adam and Eve are mythical beings, it just may be, it is a record of history, like the rest of the Bible.