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Adam and the Genome

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Much Ado at BioLogos?

We have our Kremlinologists who observe the BioLogos website for hints of what ideas, and which people, are up or down in the world of theistic evolution. Read More ›
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Geneticists Debate a First Human Pair — Continued; Where Is Dennis Venema?

Genuine scientific debate on fundamental issues that real people care about is such a rarity that when it happens, you almost want to pinch yourself to make sure you’re not dreaming. Read More ›
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Ruling Out Originating Human Pair, Theistic Evolutionist Oversteps — Geneticist Chimes In

On Dennis Venema's argument, along comes a second geneticist, no friend to biology that’s open to the design hypothesis. Read More ›
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Is a First Human Pair Possible or Impossible?

Richard Buggs, Reader at Queen Mary University of London, is a well-respected geneticist, with numerous papers published in molecular ecology, genomics, and molecular evolution. Read More ›
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Trouble in Paradise? At BioLogos, Theistic Evolutionists Fall Out Among Themselves

For years they have been gravely advising their fellow Christians that science rules out belief in a historical first pair of human beings. Read More ›
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Does Science Rule Out a First Human Pair? Geneticist Richard Buggs Says No

One of the claims Dennis Venema makes in his book is that the effective population size of our last common ancestor with chimps has never been fewer than 10,000. Read More ›
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Nylonase: Move On, Nothing to See Here, Says Theistic Evolutionist

The supposed sudden emergence of the enzyme nylonase has been a chief talking point for the power of evolution for many years. Read More ›
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Claim: New Proteins Evolve Very Easily

Proteins are composed of a linear string of amino acids, often hundreds in length, and perform all sorts of important tasks in the cell. Read More ›
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“Shared Error” Argument: Olfactory Receptor Genes Prove Common Descent?

The idea here is that, in different species, the same damaging mutation can be found in the same pseudogenes. Read More ›

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