yeah, that whole incest deal always confused me. I picked up a bible to try to clear that up, but it was more like "so adam and eve had kids, and those kids married up with bob and bill (who came out of nowhere), who hitched up with jim and tim (who came out of nowhere).......". I'm rather surprised that the intelligent design proponents on CNN were still trying to prove how we can all trace our lineage to adam and eve, especially since we need something like 230 people to make a clean enough gene pool. I think 40 is the minumum innitial number to maintain a species, assuming you don't mind all the drawbacks of some harsh inbreeding.