The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry By: S Joshua Swamidass, Joshua Swamidass [Audiobook]

Author: S. Joshua Swamidass
Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Evolutionary science teaches that humans arose as a population, sharing common ancestors with other animals. Most readers of the book of Genesis in the past understood all humans descended from Adam and Eve, a couple specially created by God. These two teachings seem contradictory, but is that necessarily so? In the fractured conversation of human origins, can new insight guide us to solid ground in both science and theology?

In The Genealogical Adam and Eve, S. Joshua Swamidass tests a scientific hypothesis: What if the traditional account is somehow true, with the origins of Adam and Eve taking place alongside evolution? Building on well-established but overlooked science, Swamidass explains how it’s possible for Adam and Eve to be rightly identified as the ancestors of everyone. His analysis opens up new possibilities for understanding Adam and Eve, consistent both with current scientific consensus and with traditional readings of Scripture. These new possibilities open a conversation about what it means to be human.

In this book, Swamidass untangles several misunderstandings about the words human and ancestry, in both science and theology; explains how genetic and genealogical ancestry are different; and explores implications of genealogical ancestry for the theology of the image of God, the fall, and people “outside the garden”. 

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656K	0. Introduction.mp3
14M	01 Courage, Curiosity, Empathy.mp3
11M	02 A Geneological Hypothesis.mp3
13M	03 Genetics Is Not Geneology.mp3
15M	04 Ancestors of Everyone Today.mp3
11M	05 Geneological Adams and Eves.mp3
16M	06 The Mythology of Isolation.mp3
15M	07 Direct and Miraculous Creation.mp3
9.6M	08 Humans in Science.mp3
15M	09 Humans in Theology.mp3
18M	10 The Error of Polygenesis.mp3
24M	11 Humans of the Text.mp3
8.5M	12 The Splintering of Traditions.mp3
10M	13 Recovering Many Traditions.mp3
15M	14 The Narrative Experiment.mp3
11M	15 Falling into Exile.mp3
13M	16 Justice, Mercy, and Ancestry.mp3
11M	17 Ending at the Beginning.mp3
11M	18 Tolerance, Humility and Patience.mp3
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232M	total