Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight – Adam and the Genome

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Judaism, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 30 May 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Evangelicals, grab your Noah's ark replicas. Atheists, seize your Darwinian fish symbols. It's the mother of all culture wars. Except Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight, who both hold traditional evangelical Christian convictions, suggest that the war is needless. In their book 'Adam and the Genome' they suggest that It is okay to acknowledge the Jesus fish and to affirm that humans and fish descend from common ancestors. How did Dennis, an evolutionary biologist, and Scot, a New Testament scholar, come together to collaborate? What new evidence has emerged about the human genome in support of evolution? And the crux: How can we make sense of the Bible's description of Adam and Eve as the first humans in light of multiple strands of evidence that suggests humans evolved as a group of no less than 10,000? Hosted by Matthew W. Bates. The post Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight – Adam and the Genome first appeared on OnScript.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome back to Onscript, the podcast, where we bring you engaging conversations about biblical scholarship and the people who create it.
0:09.3	I have a few brief announcements here. First of all, I want to offer a very special thanks to Michael Flowers and the folks at St. Aden's in Kansas City for their very generous donations to the podcast. Thank you so much. You've been a super
0:23.6	help to us and we're grateful for that. Thanks also to others who have supported us as well over
0:28.5	the last few months. In this episode, Matt Bates speaks with Scott McKnight and Dennis Venema.
0:34.7	If any of you are Scott McKnight fans and here in the UK, he'll be the keynote speaker at Westminster Theological Center's annual conference on June 1617 in Bristol.
0:46.0	WTC is the institution where I teach, and I'll be leading a session there as well and some other really great people.
0:53.0	So if you want info about that go to
0:55.1	wtctheology.org.org.uk forward slash events it's going to be a really great gathering so
1:01.1	I highly recommend that. This episode delves into the world of science and the book of Genesis which
1:07.6	for many is a very perplexing topic, how these two fit together.
1:12.9	This one actually brought me back to my early apologetics days when I actually studied
1:18.6	books like Evidence That Demands a Verdict, which is a Young Earth Creationist Apologetics
1:25.8	book.
1:26.4	And I studied that book in school and learned it and in church
1:29.7	and learned how wrong evolution was and I remember even being made fun of by this one particular
1:36.3	kid for for believing that the earth was 6,000 years old he just thought that was ridiculous and that
1:43.1	only you know that kind of fed,
1:46.1	probably in me of persecuted for my faith, sort of adrenaline, gave me an adrenaline rush.
1:54.1	You know, I remember whenever I would visit a museum, I kind of have to knock a few zeros off
2:00.3	all the numbers that described how old
2:02.9	fossils were, humans or the earth or the universe. And, you know, basically I felt the religious
2:10.2	compulsion to reread science. And the funny thing for me is that I don't ever recall having to
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