Swamidass’ “central argument is that current science is fully compatible with many different theological positions on the historical Adam”
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“The core distinction between ‘genetic’ ancestry and ‘genealogical’ ancestry seems valid. Adam and Eve could’ve been genealogical ancestors of all humans alive today, without leaving any genetic trace….Nevertheless, the genealogical hypothesis itself is still dissonant with the biblical Adam and Eve.” - TGC
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Adam and Sin as the Bane of Evolution? A Review of Finding Ourselves After Darwin
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“Overall, these noteworthy essays represent a wide range of creative possibilities for updating our theological anthropology in line with a post-Darwinian setting, but they are less convincing when justifying the theological cost for doing so.” - Themelios
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Missouri Synod Lutherans Affirm Creation “in 6 natural days”
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“The resolution also declared that the creation of Adam as the first human being was a ‘historical event’ and rejected the claims of the theory of evolution.” - Christian Post
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AiG on the Bible vs. Life on Other Planets
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“…the notion of alien life does not square well with Scripture. As previously discussed, the earth is unique. It is the earth that was designed for life (Isaiah 45:18), not the heavens.” - AiG
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"Evolutionists are having a hard time explaining beauty among God’s creatures"
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“A January headline from The New York Times Magazine: ‘How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution.’ Not reject, mind; it would take a literal act of God to do that. But a number of biologists are suggesting that natural selection alone doesn’t explain certain aesthetic properties of selected species.” - World
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New Book Exposes How Evolutionary ‘Science’ Devolves
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“This second extension to his 1996 classic, Darwin’s Black Box (where he first outed himself as an advocate of intelligent design), argues that unguided mutation and natural selection are indeed able to adapt organisms to their environments, but only within strict limits.” - TGC
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Fossil hunters declare a new human species, but some experts say otherwise
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“For at least the fourth time in two decades, evolutionary researchers have found fossils they say represent a new species of human. But intelligent design experts and young-earth creationists agree that, once again, the find represents just one more ape.” - WORLD
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“Prominent scientists are speaking out against Darwinian evolution, and they’re not even creationists.”
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“Creationists aren’t the only ones questioning the reigning evolutionary model—a band of rebellious evolutionists is leading a new movement called The Third Way.” - AiG
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