All right, friends, we've got Trumper Longman back on the show to talk about the historicity of Adam.

And as you will hear in this conversation, in the wake of the Human Genome Project led by Francis Collins, the apparent biblical

portrayal of every human coming from one pair Adam and Eve that there's some

issues there there's some conflict there now anytime the Bible conflicts with science I am not an advocate of just choosing science over the Bible

Sometimes science appears to say something and then is later corrected. Sometimes the so-called scientific consensus

is not at all a scientific consensus.

Scientists deal with interpretation and human fallibility. However, this one is a bit tricky. It is a bit tough. It does see

from the little that I've looked into it and Trumpers looked into us ten times more than I have.

The whole idea that humans came from one human pair does not seem to match the scientific evidence that we know from the Human Genome Project.

And so, Trumper helps us navigate that, and he suggests an alternative way of reading Genesis 3 I say

alternative to the typical assumed I'll say conservative or literalist

reading of Genesis 3.

And if anything, this is an engaging conversation.

I really enjoyed listening to Tremper's perspective, and I think he's a good guide for these kinds of conversations. I'm still I don't know where I'm at on it honestly I would need to look more into the science

As I said in this podcast you know his his the way he framed Genesis 1 makes sense to me I think that's valid it's a very valid way to read scripture and I think his way of reading Genesis

three I think it's valid too it's just a little bit harder to swallow and I

voiced that in this body gas I'm like I just I just it does feel like we might be

trying to make the text fit science rather than truly looking at what the text is saying.

But I think as reading's valid.

So I need to do more thinking on it.

And I encourage you to do more thinking on it too. Okay I'll stop talking because I hope

hopefully you're interested enough to keep going. So yeah without further ado let's welcome back to the

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