Tag: Scot McKnight

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 15, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Ann Gauger, BIO-Complexity, BioLogos, bottleneck, Calvin College, Christianity Today, Deborah Haarsma, Dennis Venema, DNA, Evangelical Christians, Evangelicals, evolutionary creation, evolutionary science, Francis Collins, human origin, humans, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Nature Ecology and Evolution, npr, Ola Hössjer, Queen Mary University, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science and Human Origins, Scot McKnight, The Language of God, theistic evolution, Trinity Western University, William Lane Craig}

Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

_{Casey Luskin
November 15, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The standard evolutionary account of human origins holds that our population has always been in the thousands and humanity did not descend from an initial pair. Read More ›

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Date
November 20, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Apostle John, BioLogos, C. John Collins, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, civility, creationist, Dennis Venema, evolution, honesty, jesus, Natural Sciences, science, Scot McKnight, St. Paul, theistic evolution, theology, Todd Wood}

Theistic Evolution and the Moral High Ground

_{Science and Culture
November 20, 2018

Faith & Science, Linguistics

3}

C. John Collins points out that Venema’s use of “language evolution” is a poor analogy for (his form of) biological evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
August 28, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Genetics
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, C. John Collins, chimpanzees, common descent, Covenant Theological Seminary, David Snoke, Dennis Venema, genome, Günter Bechly, humans, intelligent design, J.P. Moreland, mice, mutations, Nature (journal), providence, rats, S. Joshua Swamidass, Scot McKnight, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Themelios, theology, University of Pittsburgh, Washington University, Wayne Grudem, Y chromosome}

Answering Swamidass on Theistic Evolution: Sketchy Science, and a Swerve into Metaphysics

_{Ann Gauger
August 28, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science, Genetics, Metaphysics, Philosophy

15}

His choice of targets for criticism and for praise have a lot more to do with his particular agenda than the defects or merits of those whom he critiques. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
March 2, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", Adam and Eve, BioLogos, Christianity Today, Darwinian evolution, Dennis Venema, electron microscope, Evangelical Christians, faith, Jew, Paul, Romans, science, Scot McKnight, Stephen Meyer, students, theistic evolution, Trinity Western University}

A Professor’s Journey Away from Intelligent Design

_{Ann Gauger
March 2, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

8}

Readers may wonder who Dennis Venema is and how he came to his crusade against ID. Some background may help explain. Read More ›

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Date
January 15, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and the Genome, amino acids, Andrew Jones, apes, Bible, chimpanzees, Denisovans, Dennis Venema, DNA, Douglas Axe, genome, hominid fossils, human origins, humans, Journal of Molecular Biology, Michael Behe, mitochondrial Eve, Neanderthals, proteins, pseudogenes, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, RNA, Scot McKnight, Stephen Meyer, synteny, theistic evolution, Y-chromosome Adam}

Hmm, Much of Dennis Venema’s Adam and the Genome Isn’t About Adam and the Genome

_{Science and Culture
January 15, 2018

Faith & Science

9}

Venema seems much more interested in pursuing longstanding debates with intelligent design and with certain ID proponents. Read More ›

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Date
January 11, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, alleles, apes, BioLogos, chromosomes, Dennis Venema, generations, hominins, human origins, humans, mitochondrial Eve, Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, Scot McKnight, Y-chromosome Adam}

On Prejudiced Models and Human Origins

_{Science and Culture
January 11, 2018

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

7}

Recently Dennis Venema joined with Scot McKnight to publish a book, Adam and the Genome, in which they claim that there never was an original pair of humans like Adam and Eve. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 14, 2017

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Ann Gauger, Bible, BioLogos, bottleneck, Christianity, Colin Reeves, Darwinian evolution, Deborah Haarsma, Dennis Venema, Garden of Eden, Genesis, genome, history, human origins, Native Americans, Ola Hössjer, population genetics, population size, Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, Scot McKnight, theistic evolution, theology}

Much Ado at BioLogos?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 14, 2017

Faith & Science, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

12}

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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 4, 2017

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Ann Gauger, BioLogos, Christianity, Deborah Haarsma, Dennis Venema, faith, Francis Collins, Genesis, human origins, intelligent design, Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, Scot McKnight, theistic evolution, Washington University}

Trouble in Paradise? At BioLogos, Theistic Evolutionists Fall Out Among Themselves

_{David Klinghoffer
October 4, 2017

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

6}

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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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
October 3, 2017

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, bottleneck, Colin Reeves, common descent, Dennis Venema, heterozygosity, human origins, Ola Hössjer, population genetics, Richard Buggs, Scot McKnight, Trinity Western University}

Does Science Rule Out a First Human Pair? Geneticist Richard Buggs Says No

_{Ann Gauger
October 3, 2017

Faith & Science, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

7}

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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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
April 25, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and the Genome, bacteria, Dennis Venema, intelligent design, nylonase, protein evolution, Scot McKnight, Warfare Thesis}

Claim: New Proteins Evolve Very Easily

_{Cornelius Hunter
April 25, 2017

Evolution, Faith & Science, Science

6}

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 ›