It's always good to have you for the podcast. This is Reasonable Faith with Dr. William

Lane Craig.

I'm Kevin Harris and a couple of things to keep you updated on. First of all, from time

to time, we're going to interact with some of the reviews and reactions to Dr. Craig's

book in Quest of the Historical Adam. More and more people are reading the book and

more and more people are talking about it. And today we're going to be looking at an

interview between Ben Weatherington and a man that's been right smack dab in the middle

of this whole thing. If you've been following it, Dr. Josh Swamidas.

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Bill Ben Weatherington is a respected scholar. He's been interviewing Josh Swamidas and on his

blog The Bible and Culture. He's been talking about your book. By the way, one invite you or one

to go to reasonablefaith.org and get a copy in Quest of the Historical Adam. Ben Weatherington

talks about it here in this interview series with Josh. He says, quoting,

one of the issues I have with Bill Craig's fine book in Quest of the Historical Adam is the willingness

to take a text like Genesis 2 as basically myth with the exception of there being a real historical

Adam and Eve at some point in antiquity. He's willing to basically dismiss the social ethos of

the text which suggests a rather recent Adam and Eve during an era where religious sacrifices

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