Dear RLR Family,

We bring you RLR 179 where we discuss the complex subject of the HYPOTHESIS of the GENEALOGICAL ADAM and  EVE.

Genealogical ancestry is not genetic ancestry, and that genealogical ancestry is more important in establishing that Adam and Eve could have been ancestors to the entire human race alive today and that Adam and Eve could have lived a mere 6,000 years ago.Thus, the traditional de novo account of the creation of Adam and Eve could have occurred alongside evolution of human descent. This leaves intact the Genesis account and allows room for evolutionary science. 

The Genealogical Hypothesis Summarized

1)        Adam and Eve could have lived as recently as 6,000 years agio in the Middle East.
2)        Adam and Eve are the genealogical ancestors of the entire human race as it exists today.
3)        Adam and Eve were created de novo by an act of God from dust and Adam’s rib.
4)        There was interbreeding between the lines of Adam and Eve and those that were found    
            outside of the Garden.5)        The main findings of evolutionary science can be reconciled with traditional readings of    
           Genesis where those outside of the Garden would have shared common descent with the great
           apes, and humans are descended not from an original human couple, but from a larger
           population that included these people from outside of the Garden.