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Adam and the Genome: Reading Scripture after Genetic Science is unavailable, but you can change that!

Genomic science indicates that humans descend not from an individual pair but from a large population. What does this mean for the basic claim of many Christians: that humans descend from Adam and Eve? Leading evangelical geneticist Dennis Venema and popular New Testament scholar Scot McKnight combine their expertise to offer informed guidance and answers to questions pertaining to evolution,...

point to consider a few in passing. Some are erroneously simplistic, such as the question, if humans evolved from apes, why are there still apes? (This is the equivalent of asking, if English evolved from other languages, why are there still other languages? Or, if American immigrants descend from Europeans, why are there still Europeans? Or, given one of our foregoing examples, if whales evolved from terrestrial mammals, why are there still terrestrial mammals?) This objection presupposes that evolution
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