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Adam and the Genome: Rethinking the ‘Historical’ Adam

by Dennis Venema / Scot McKnight • July 20, 2017 • 0 Comments

The Human Genome Project contends that the DNA of current humans comes from approximately 1,000 hominins. What does this do to the construct of the ‘historical’ Adam, passed on and used as a foundation in much Christian theology and evangelism?…

Adam and the Genome: Reading Scripture after Genetic Science

by Dennis Venema / Scot McKnight • February 16, 2017 • 0 Comments

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? Trinity Western University geneticist Dennis Venema…