answersincreation.org (Literal Genesis AND Old Earth Creationism?)

I don't see why cloning would be necessary. There's nothing in your hypothesis that prevents one male and one female, both homozygous for the relevant allele, from occurring in the same generation.

Which would be a bad thing if Adam carried any harmful recessives. Think of the children ...

Your point is obscure.Mine, I think, is much clearer: from a genetic standpoint, it would not be a particularly good idea for Eve's genes to perfectly match Adam's.

No.If the book was reputable, that is not what it said; if that is what it said, it was not reputable.

You bet your ass.One of the posters here, I think it might have been RAZD, said something that stuck with me.He said: you can believe in God all you want, and you can believe that he created the universe. Only then you've got to believe that he created the real universe, the one that we actually live in.I agree. It's a cop-out beliving that God made the universe that exists in the daydreams of Young Earth Creationists, because that universe doesn't exist.

Well if you've said similar things, then it probably was you. I didn't say that I was accurately quoting verbatim every word that dropped like quicksilver off my guru's golden tongue, I just thought that you'd said something along those lines. Doubtless also I have pondered over the idea and elaborated it since then. But I do remember someone (I still think it was you) mentioning this idea: and the way that you (or maybe someone else) phrased it struck me very forcibly.