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The Genealogical Adam & Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry is unavailable, but you can change that!

Evolutionary science teaches that humans arose as a population, sharing common ancestors with other animals. Most readers of the book of Genesis in the past understood all humans descended from Adam and Eve, a couple specially created by God. These two teachings seem contradictory, but is that necessarily so? In the fractured conversation of human origins, can new insight guide us to solid ground...

Even “death” and “no death” before the Fall, old and young creation, are held together. In the first periscope, Adam’s world is in fact created very recently, free of death, even though the world outside the Garden is ancient and also with death. In these tensions, in fact, I see the recovery of the many-colored wisdom of the Church, in both its orthodox and heterodox traditions. With dilemma put away, we can return into a common conversation. Far from an exclusionary tradition, it welcomes us all.
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