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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Josh Swamidass in Christianity Today

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Dr. Craig interacts with Christianity Today.

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Well Bill we've been talking a whole lot about Adam and Eve and Josh.

0:10.0

Josh Schwamadas and he was interviewed in Christianity today.

0:17.0

Let's look at some highlights of this recent interview.

0:20.0

Christianity today begins by saying that Christians have struggled to locate

0:25.1

Adam and Eve within an evolutionary past.

0:28.8

According to the traditional reading of the first chapters of Genesis, God created Adam and Eve directly, and all

0:34.8

human beings descended from that first couple. I just wanted to draw our attention to

0:39.4

that phrase, all human beings are descended from that first couple.

0:45.0

That is part of the traditional view of Adam and Eve,

0:49.0

which would mean that there are no human beings outside the garden, no human beings that are not descended

0:56.2

from Adam and Eve.

0:58.1

And it continues, yet many Christians have discarded this belief on the basis of evolutionary science, which holds that human beings, having descended from animals,

1:07.0

first appeared on Earth as a population, rather than a single divinely created pair.

1:14.0

And the book, The Genealogical Adam and Eve

1:17.0

carries a wide range of endorsements from theologians,

1:21.0

atheist, biologist, and believing scientists from all across the origins debate spectrum.

1:27.3

And so here is this interview.

1:29.2

And by the way, USA Today did a great article as well. This has gotten the attention of even atheist

1:35.1

biologists. So Bill I guess a conversation is kind of going on here.

1:39.3

Yes, this Nathan Lentz is a friend of Josh Swami Doss, a secularist, but he wants to diffuse the conflict

1:49.4

between science and Christianity in our day. And so he's joining in these dialogues.

1:55.0

He was part of the recent panel discussion that I was on

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