Tag: Richard Buggs
Geneticists Debate a First Human Pair — Continued; Where Is Dennis Venema?
Genuine scientific debate on fundamental issues that real people care about is such a rarity that when it happens, you almost want to pinch yourself to make sure you’re not dreaming.
Ruling Out Originating Human Pair, Theistic Evolutionist Oversteps — Geneticist Chimes In
On Dennis Venema’s argument, along comes a second geneticist, no friend to biology that’s open to the design hypothesis.
Is a First Human Pair Possible or Impossible?
Richard Buggs, Reader at Queen Mary University of London, is a well-respected geneticist, with numerous papers published in molecular ecology, genomics, and molecular evolution.
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.