Little Hawk, I will quote to you what some famous philosopher said to me once: Please don't be a literalist, okay?

The Adam and Eve thing is on a par with the Ugh, the caveman thing. It's a parable or fable, I suppose one would say, to illustrate the silliness of the reincarnation-from-a-fixed-pool-of-souls theory (if one can call it that). Actually, I'm not sure that reincarnation on any other basis is any better.

And I really do believe that that parable/fable status should be obvious on its face. So, "Please don't be a literalist, okay?"

Dave Oesterreich