The Genealogical Adam and Eve by S. Joshua Swamidass

Author:S. Joshua Swamidass
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: evolution;creation;intelligent design;genetics;genomics;ancestry;genealogy;descent;origins;human origins;cosmology;humanity;anthropology;paleontology;species;Homo sapiens;primates;hominids;apes;chromosomes;genes;genome;DNA;sequencing;family;de novo;migration;theistic evolution;Christian evolution;Adam and Eve;Genesis;creation account;biblical creation;Christian origins;human ancestors;science and Christianity;science and faith;polygenesis;first humans;the fall;garden of eden;universal ancestry
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2019-10-24T07:22:22+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

THE SPLINTERING OF TRADITIONS

THE CHALLENGE OF EVOLUTION splintered the traditional account by pressing three false dilemmas: Monogenesis or a recent Adam and Eve? Common descent or de novo creation? Mythology or historicity? These dilemmas splintered the traditional account into several mutually exclusive responses, fracturing the ecclesial conversation.

We are entering an ancient conversation. It seemed that science pressed harder and harder on theological claims. Steadily, theological claim after claim was ceded. Some resisted this pressure by saying no to mainstream science, in one way or another. Others adapted their theology, ceding territory where they could. The exchange has been largely one-sided, with theology adapting over and over again to science. The theologian Tom McCall speaks for many when he writes,

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