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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Josh Swamidass on Adam and Eve - PART 1

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Christianity, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Swamidass discusses his recent book on the historical Adam and Eve.

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0:00.0

My name is Adam. My name is Eve.

0:13.0

I was the first man to live and breathe.

0:20.0

God made the ocean. He made it blue.

0:23.0

it blue.

0:26.0

Bill, you've had an opportunity to meet and work with Josh Swamadas who is really getting a lot of people

0:35.6

talking these days, especially when it comes to the historical Adam and Eve and the theology

0:41.1

behind it.

0:42.1

I met him first at the Dabar conference at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School,

0:48.0

which is a conference of the so-called Creation Project investigating these origins questions.

0:55.0

And he was there, he's an information biologist from Washington University in St. Louis.

1:01.0

And he made quite an impression on me because during one of the

1:06.8

sessions the speaker was talking about Darwinism and Swamidas stood up from the floor and he's a big fellow and he says to this fellow

1:16.8

Why do you keep talking about Darwinism Darwinism has been dead for over a hundred years and the fellow says well all right then neo-Darwinism and

1:26.5

Swamidas wouldn't let go he said neo-Darwinism has been dead since the late 1960s. Why do you keep attacking these obsolete

1:35.4

views rather than the views that are current in evolutionary biology?

1:40.3

And really challenging the speaker on his knowledge of what was going on in current

1:46.9

evolutionary theory.

1:48.2

So Josh is an expert in this area.

1:51.4

He's very confrontational, not afraid to be controversial.

1:55.4

Let's play some excerpts of his interview on the YouTube channel,

1:59.3

Capturing Christianity. By the way, we want to give a shout out to Cameron Bertusi who hosts

2:05.1

capturing Christianity and does a phenomenal job hosting and producing it and Michael

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