But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
Male and female sexes existed from the very beginning of the universe.
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What current science says
The universe is about 13.8 billion years old. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago. The first life was single-celled and reproduced by dividing — no sexes needed. Sexual reproduction didn't evolve until roughly 1-1.2 billion years ago in eukaryotes. Anatomically modern humans showed up only about 300,000 years ago. So male and female humans appeared in the last 0.002% of the universe's existence. That's like saying breakfast happened 'at the beginning of the day' when it actually happened two seconds before midnight.
What the text says
This comes from Mark 10:6, which states 'from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female' — placing human sexual reproduction at the start of the universe rather than billions of years into its history.
Three honest ways to read this passage
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As history
The text records how its authors understood the world with the knowledge they had. Read this way, a difference from modern science is a window into the ancient mind, not a failure.
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As accommodation
The text speaks to its first audience in their own terms, to make a point that isn't mainly about physics or biology. Read this way, the scientific detail is the vehicle, not the cargo.
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As contradiction
The text makes a claim about the physical world that modern findings dispute. Read this way, the difference is a genuine factual disagreement worth naming.
GEBible doesn't pick one of these for you. Each entry shows the passage, what it says, and what current science says — nothing more.