I've never heard it translated as "curve", but more like "rib" or "side". It's interesting to me that you speculate it's specifically referring to DNA. I'm going to suggest that it really was a rib, because
rib periosteum has a remarkable ability to regenerate bone, perhaps more so than any other bone and God didn't want to leave Adam with any lasting damage.
Good morning Chet
As the
rib from the
side is
curved....LOL....who knows? Whichever one, God used it to "
make woman / womb-man." Was it DNA as they were one person or was it a regenerative bone?
All skin colors could have come from a single pair of parents, provided their initial genes were as described in the link I provided. So regarding skin color, there's no scientific requirement that we come from more than a single pair.
And if people with similar-colored skin tended to pair off, then the genes for differently-colored skin would vanish from their genomes, and voilà, you would have a culture with a single skin color.
Except....His Word tells us man (mankind) was created before Adam was formed.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Notice that man (mankind) was made in "our image," meaning...in the image of more than one....so it was more than one man being made.
1:27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
The angelic beings with God were in the image of God and man-kind was also created in their image. This isn't speaking of just one man.
1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
1:31 And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
2:1-2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.
On the sixth day everything was complete, "
were finished" including
"all the host" of His works....all mankind. How can that be if billions more were to be born? Because within created mankind was seed so all the
generations of heaven and earth that were to come were already created before His seventh day of rest.
2:4-7 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
We are the generations and we were created long before we were born. He tells us we were created "
in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens." When was that?
1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
In the beginning He brought us forth and that was long before "the earth became void." Perhaps billions of years before this present age began. We aren't told when, where or how but we know it was before "
earth became void" because of the rebellion of Satan.
Satan was at one time loved by God...his rebellion occurred before we are first introduced to him in the garden of Eden. Then he was already in his fallen state. The falling of which caused the earth to become void and dark.
We are spiritual beings before being born of woman. Of mankind on earth He chose one specific man to be formed. This man was to "till the soil," meaning hear the Word of the Lord and teach others. This man Adam was the first in the line leading to Christ, the first of the "chosen people."
That leads me to where I believe the Bible says we came from, in the verse below.
I'll change gears and go to a different verse that I think may be more relevant here, Acts 17:26:
Acts 17:26 And hath made of
one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
"
One blood." The text omits the word
"blood." If all men were from one man then there wouldn't be
"nations of men." There would have been no reason for God to instruct His chosen to not marry into other nations. Instead we various
nations/nationalities were appointed to stay within our bounds. "Nations" is
ethnos = ethic people.
That was Paul speaking. Whether the "one man" refers to Adam or Noah doesn't matter, since choosing Noah eventually leads back to Adam anyway because Noah was his descendant. It then leads back to Eve as well, because she was Adam's wife, and also called "the mother of all living".
She is the mother of all living for she was the beginning of Christ and only through Him is one spiritually alive. She was not the mother of all humanity.
I understand that the belief in a larger human population during Adam's time is common among TE's (whether you consider yourself one, I don't know). Nevertheless, Paul claims that all nations came through Noah and Adam. If there ever were other humans, they're gone from the scene and all of us are now descendants of Adam through Noah.
From Adam to Christ is a direct line. All nations are not from Adam.
Wow, and my LOL was reprimanded. 
Some things we know...sometimes we guess...and somethings we just aren't supposed to know. This may be one of them.
