Tag: Adam and the Genome
Trouble in Paradise? At BioLogos, Theistic Evolutionists Fall Out Among Themselves
For years they have been gravely advising their fellow Christians that science rules out belief in a historical first pair of human beings.
Does Science Rule Out a First Human Pair? Geneticist Richard Buggs Says No
One of the claims Dennis Venema makes in his book is that the effective population size of our last common ancestor with chimps has never been fewer than 10,000.
Nylonase: Move On, Nothing to See Here, Says Theistic Evolutionist
The supposed sudden emergence of the enzyme nylonase has been a chief talking point for the power of evolution for many years.
Claim: New Proteins Evolve Very Easily
Proteins are composed of a linear string of amino acids, often hundreds in length, and perform all sorts of important tasks in the cell.
“Shared Error” Argument: Olfactory Receptor Genes Prove Common Descent?
The idea here is that, in different species, the same damaging mutation can be found in the same pseudogenes.