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21Dec 2021 by Post

Human Genetic Variation — A Tale that Keeps on Telling

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If the pockmarks on the moon showed this kind of specific array surrounding each crater, we would think someone was using the moon for target practice. Source

Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Ann Gauger, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, BIO-Complexity, BioLogos, bottleneck, Calvin College, Christianity Today, Daniel Harlow, Deborah Haarsma, Dennis Venema, DNA, Evangelical Christians, Evangelicals, Evolution, evolutionary creation, evolutionary science, Faith & Science, Francis Collins, human origin, Human Origins, humans, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Joshua Swamidass, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Neal Conan, npr, Ola Hössjer, Queen Mary University, Richard Buggs, Science and Human Origins, Scientific consensus, Scot McKnight, The Language of God, theistic evolution, Trinity Western University, UniqueOriginResearch.com, william lane craig

The standard evolutionary account of human origins holds that our population has always been in the thousands and humanity did not descend from an initial pair. Source

Reflections on Our Ancient Past

Africa, ancient past, BIO-Complexity, bottleneck, coalescence, de novo creation, Denisovans, DNA, genetic diversity, Homo erectus, Human Origins, methodological naturalism, Neanderthals, Ola Hössjer, population genetics

This past October, Ola Hössjer and I published a paper, “A Single-Couple Human Origin Is Possible.” Writing in the journal BIO-Complexity, we described a model that used standard population genetics methods but refined in a new way to permit calculation of larger data arrays deeper in time. Using this model we were able to demonstrate that an initial couple could indeed give rise to the modern human population. That paper discussed the possibility of a first couple, but it did not distinguish between two alternatives. The single couple could have had a de novo origin, meaning to start from the beginning. This alternative is one most scientists choose to ignore since it does not fit with methodological naturalism (MN), the philosophical position that only “natural” explanations are allowed in science.…

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