Category: Human Origins
Human Origins: Not a Simple Question
Is this proof of Adam and Eve? Far from it. It merely shows they might be possible. This model is scientific and as such is falsifiable.
Douglas Axe: On the 160th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin, “Fear of Man,” the Cringe Factor, and More
I love how Dr. Axe, the Maxwell Professor of Molecular Biology at Biola, pulls no punches.
“Unique Human Origins”: Explained
One scenario involves a first human pair created from scratch — Adam and Eve, as many traditional religious believers would have it.
From Ann Gauger and Ola Hössjer, a New Standard for the Science of a “First Couple”
Their scrupulous work found that Jerry Coyne and others, in bullying Christians and Jews on how “we can dismiss a physical Adam and Eve with near scientific certainty,” were in reality poorly supported.
More Backstory on Our First-Couple Paper: Why Wasn’t This Done Before?
For the last forty years, population geneticists have repeatedly said that our population was never smaller than several thousand.