Did Adam & Eve exist? William Lane Craig and Joshua Swamidass

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🗓️ 13 August 2021

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How should Christians understand the Adam & Eve story in Genesis? Is it scientifically plausible that humanity can be traced back to a first human couple? What does it mean for the concept of 'Original Sin'? These and more questions are discussed by Christian philosopher William Lane Craig, author of the new book 'In Quest of the Historical Adam', and computational biologist Joshua Swamidass, author of 'The Genealogical Adam & Eve'. At the end of the show Ruth Jackson talks to Tim Moyler about the evangelistic resource 'Living & Telling'. For William Lane Craig: http://www.reasonablefaith.org For Joshua Swamidass: http://www.peacefulscience.org For Living & Telling: https://www.agape.org.uk/living-and-telling/ For exclusive resources and to support us: • Support (USA): http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support (rest of the world): https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable • For our newsletter https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter • For our blog: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievable-the-blog • For the podcast: http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable • Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UnbelievableJB • Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb • Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to today's edition of Unbelievably with me Justin Briley, a fascinating
0:05.0	conversation for you today between William Lane Craig and Joshua Swamidass on the historical
0:10.8	Adam and Eve. I'll be introducing them both in just a moment's time. This is the show that
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0:24.7	a bonus conversation for you, Ruth Jackson with an interview she recorded before going on
0:29.6	maternity leave with Tim Moiler about new evangelism resource living and telling. So for more
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0:57.6	to your journey. Right now time to get into today's discussion.
1:08.8	You're listening to Unbelievably with Justin Briley.
1:17.0	Today on the program we're asking what can we know about the historical Adam and Eve.
1:22.5	The story of the creation of Adam and Eve in Genesis is the first human couple is
1:27.0	perhaps the foundational origin story of the Bible. But what sort of a story are we dealing with?
1:33.2	Should Christians treat the story purely figuratively or is it scientifically and historically
1:38.7	plausible that humanity can be traced back to a first couple and if so how do we map that onto
1:45.0	the Genesis account? Well, Christian philosopher William Lane Craig's new book in Quest of the
1:49.8	Historical Adam is a biblical and scientific exploration of precisely these kinds of questions.
1:56.3	And today he joins me along with computational biologist Joshua Swamidh, whose own book The
2:01.7	Geneological Adam and Eve has sought to build a bridge of sorts between the creation account of
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