See also: pre-adamitism

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From pre-Adamite +‎ -ism.

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pre-Adamitism (uncountable)

  1. (theology) The belief that humanity is descended from a single progenitor that predates Adam.
    • 1994, Alvin Snider, Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England, page 134:
      The doctrine of 'pre-Adamitism,' while heretical and guaranteed to generate storms of controversy, won some prominent adherents.
    • 2007, Davis A. Young, John Calvin and the natural world, →ISBN, page 151:
      He probably also had theological reasons for not considering pre-Adamitism.

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