Biblical Genetics

By Dr. Robert Carter

What's Biblical Genetics about?

Biblical Genetics is a vlog/podcast by Dr. Robert Carter. His posts explore modern genetics through the lens of biblical history, and vice versa.

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Biblical Genetics episodes:

03.19.2024
Junk or genius? How functional is the human genome? Part 2
https://youtu.be/-jpoxCZgZKQ Is the human genome highly functional or mostly junk? This is a question that is not only being asked in the creation-evolution debate; it is a question raging in the ivory tower as well. The 'old guard' is much more...
03.03.2024
DNA – highly functional or mostly junk? Part 1
Is the human genome highly functional or mostly junk? This is a question that is not only being asked in the creation-evolution debate; it is a question raging in the ivory tower as well. The 'old guard' is much more...
02.13.2024
The Incredible Shrinking Human Genome
No, the size of the genome has not changed, but the number of genes we thought it contains certainly has. After lots of double checking, there are fewer known protein coding genes today (~19,000) than there were when the human...
01.16.2024
James 3 vs the anticreationists
A slew of videos has recently come out arguing for and against the work of Dr Jeffrey Tomkins, who claims humans and chimps are only about 85% similar. His detractors have made some massive blunders and I attempt to document...
01.02.2024
Recombine-o-mania
Chromosomal recombination is an essential part of the life cycle of all sexually reproducing organisms. Yet, the system is complex, involving hundreds to thousands of proteins and RNAs. It also involves DNA repair pathways, which are themselves incredibly complex. The...
12.19.2023
Let’s talk about ancient DNA
My new video made quite a splash! Apparently, lots of Christians are asking questions about the DNA we can now pull from very old skeletons. How do they do it? What are the data telling us? How is it even...
12.05.2023
African cichlids – ‘fast species’ are very, very biblical
African cichlids are a diverse group of fishes that have frequently been used as evidence for evolution. Yet, now that the genomes of several hundred species have been published, the true history of this group has been revealed. All parties...
11.30.2023
Darwin’s Finches: the little birds that destroy evolution
Darwin's finches have long been considered an icon of evolution. A recent analysis included 40 years of morphological measurements and genealogy tracing among four finch species on a small island in the Galapagos chain. This was coupled to 30 years...
11.09.2023
Evolutionists predict super bottleneck (it would have killed us)
A new paper claims that the pre-human population went through an extremely small and extremely long population bottleneck. Starting about one million years ago, the population was reduced to at most 1,280 "breeding individuals" and this lasted for over 100,000...
11.09.2023
Human vs Chimp Part 3: a deep dive into how statistics are being misused
The opponents of biblical creation have made some glaring errors in their criticisms of prior work on human-chimpanzee genetic differences. Specifically, several of their claims are in conflict with both theory and experiment. I document these here in detail. They...
10.06.2023
Human vs Chimp part 2
This is the second installment in a now multi-part series on human and chimpanzee genetic differences. I had a lot of pushback from my last episode, including negative reviews posted by Gutsick Gibbon, Creation Myths, and Dapper Dinosaur. Unperturbed, I...
08.15.2023
Human vs Chimp: an honest evaluation of our genetic differences
Several anti-creationists have made a hobby out of attacking creationists. Their best efforts, however, have generally failed. For example, see: Sanford 2013 Critic ignores reality of Genetic Entropy: the author of a landmark book on genomic decay responds to unsustainable...
07.25.2023
Eschatological Genetics
Dr Rob outlines three aspects of genetics that tell us that, scientifically, the human species is doomed to eventual extinction. These include the rate of mutation accumulation in our population over time, the inability of natural selection to remove most...
07.11.2023
Fisher’s failure and the dramatic end of neo-Darwinism
Dr Rob discusses a fundamental aspect of neo-Darwinism (Fisher's Theorem of Natural Selection) and how it fails mathematically. First postulated in 1930, Fisher's idea was promoted as something as firm and settled as the 2nd Law. Problem is, he made...
06.27.2023
Geeking out about DNA damage repair
Dr Rob waxes eloquent about some amazing new revelations involving DNA damage repair systems. Researchers recently turned AI onto the human genome, probing the genes and gene systems that are involved in maintaining and repairing DNA. The results shocked everyone....
06.13.2023
Why you can’t trace your family tree to Adam and Eve
Everybody loves genealogy, but we are severely limited in what we can know about our family histories. There are two main reasons for this. First, family records only go back so far. Even the longest family trees can't go back...
05.30.2023
It’s an RNA world after all
Notes and links: Genetic Entropy, by John Sanford Keffer oak RNA: the epicenter of genetic information, by John Mattick and Paulo Amaral (reviewed by Witold Filipowicz)
04.04.2023
Bacteria deceived us! Life is not simple
Science advances in fits and starts, and it sometimes takes a detour onto a dead-end road. Bacteria represent one of those roads. Studying bacteria gave us a sense that we could easily figure out biology, that there was a direct...
03.23.2023
How I made fluorescent fish (a Christian response to genetic engineering)
Genetic engineering is a controversial topic. From vaccines to fetal cells to transhumanism, the debate rages. Yet, there are certain aspects to genetic engineering that are demonstrably good. How are we supposed to make heads or tails of this new...
03.08.2023
Scopes, 100 years later: the lingering effects of the famous “monkey trial”
We are approaching the 100th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey Trial". Dr Rob was in the neighborhood, so he stopped by the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, TN to tell the part of the story most people have never heard....
03.01.2023
Can creationists make any real predictions? Or are they just preaching to the choir?
Given the biblical accounts of Creation and the Flood, can we draw any conclusions about what we would expect in genetics? That depends on status of the species in question (e.g., 'clean' vs 'unclean and 'on the Ark' vs 'not...
01.25.2023
Sexual Recombination, complex genetics, and challenges to the Out-of-Africa theory
Notes, links, and things to think about: Hinch et al. 2011. The landscape of recombination in African Americans. Nature 476:170–177, 2011. Eberle et al. 2017. A reference dataset of 5.4 million human variants validated by genetic inheritance from sequencing a...
01.12.2023
Things I no longer believe
Dr Rob spills the beans about several things he no longer believes, including Darwinian evolution, the simplicity of bacteria, Linnean taxonomy, and the thought that the human embryo goes through the stages of evolution as it develops. This is a...
12.08.2022
Where are the skeletons of all the REALLY old people? Archaeology vs the Bible.
There is scant evidence for very old people in the archaeological record, but the Bible claims people once lived for centuries. Is this a major contradiction? Not really. First, regarding the physical evidence, we would not necessarily know what to...
11.29.2022
Genealogy vs Phylogeny: The War Continues
Mutations are known to occur at much higher rates than can be accounted for in evolutionary theory. Given measurable rates, Y Chromosome Adam and Mitochondrial Eve would have lived only a few thousand years ago. To answer this, evolutionists generally...
11.20.2022
How the butterfly got its stripes
The genetics of the humble butterfly tells us a lot about the creation-evolution debate, the definition of 'species', the definition of 'junk DNA', and how complex the control systems for things like wing patterns are. The 'unit' of creation is...
11.14.2022
Why Egyptians are not ‘Black’
Egyptian culture is thousands of years old, yet they never maintained perfect isolation from the nations among whom they lived. They have been conquered and they themselves have conquered many times. Invading armies brought hordes of soldiers, who would have...
10.11.2022
DNA of the Ancient Pharaohs
Dr Rob describes the horrible levels of inbreeding within the ancient Egyptian royal family and how this affected them over time. This includes the problems we see in the mummies of King Tut and his father Akhenaten, plus further up...
10.04.2022
How did they build the pyramids so soon after Noah’s Flood?
Dr Rob travels to Egypt to answer some difficult questions about the biblical timeline, population growth, the people of Egypt, and how, on earth, there were enough people to build the pyramids just a few centuries after Babel. Notes and links: ...
09.14.2022
Fighting among the creationists?
Dr Rob talks about how divisions and disagreements are not only necessary but also productive for scientific progress. Thus, when you see two scientists disagreeing, this does not mean they hate each other or that they are necessarily refuting each...
09.08.2022
There is no Y Chromosome Clock
The 'molecular clock hypothesis' is critical for evolutionary theory. If it fails, many evolutionary speculations will fall as well. Yet, there is abundant evidence that mutations in the Y chromosome have happened at different rates among different people groups. If...
08.25.2022
Evolution’s Wobbly Foundation
During the process of protein translation, the cell matches three letters in DNA for each amino acid. But there are 4 x 4 x 4 = 64 possible 3-letter combination and only 20 amino acids. This means that most amino...
08.16.2022
Adam and Eve did not live 200,000 years ago
Dr Rob explains an issue in the creation vs. evolution debate: how fast mutations accumulate. The rate we can measure in families (the 'genealogical' rate) is much faster than the rate at which it is claimed mutations accumulate in the...
08.11.2022
Creation Research Society Summer Meeting 2022
Dr Rob is at Liberty University for the annual summer conference of the Creation Research Society. He shares the highlights and an encouraging message for the future of creation research. Notes and links: Join the Creation Research Society! Article: Species were...
07.19.2022
Did we evolve from 10,000 people in Africa?
The oft-heard claim is that Homo sapiens evolved from Homo erectus within a small African population with an effective size of about 10,000 individuals. What, exactly is an "effective" population size and how is that different from a "census" population...
07.05.2022
Seven reasons to believe that Adam was real
This presentation was produced for a conference at the Scandinavian School of Theology in Uppsala, Sweden. I was speaking as a representative of Creation Ministries International, but since this recording is similar to my talk The Historical Adam: theological conundrums...
06.28.2022
Old fathers are genetic poison
The idea that old men contribute more mutations to their children than young men is not controversial. The application of this thought to people who lived 'biblical' lifespans, however, is. Here, I discuss some new information on the subject and...
11.09.2021
Apples are the perfect fruit…for discussing how things were designed to change
The apple gives us several excellent illustrations for understanding biblical genetics. The genetics of the apple tree is super complicated, yet always fascinating. From one domestication event several thousand years ago we now have over 10,000 apple varieties, and this...
11.09.2021
The Genetics of Modern Jews
0 "Who is a Jew?" and "Are the Jews genetically distinct?" are important and interesting questions. We have a biblical record of where they came from, of the number of people who married into Israel over time, and of the number...
10.19.2021
Early Israel was a Hotbed of Interracial Dating
The biblical story details a surprising number of marriages between Israelite and non-Israelite people. This leads to questions about what is a "Jew", where the boundaries are between "races" (if they even exist), and what we should expect to see...
09.21.2021
How long were the Israelites in Egypt?
There are many question that revolve around the Israelites time in Egypt. One of these deals with how long they were there. The Bible gives conflicting numbers and people argue over a "430-year Long Sojourn" and a "215-year Short Sojourn". In...
09.21.2021
The Jews, inbreeding, and false notions of ‘race’
The origin of the Jewish nation is a fascinating question that is addressed in the Bible, archaeology, and genetics. In this episode, Dr Rob examines the early Israelite family tree and notes the huge amount of inbreeding that occurred as...
09.08.2021
The Barrier has been breached: new discoveries are challenging neo-Darwinism
Dr Rob reveals several new studies that are challenging the fundamental assumptions that underlie the neo-Darwinian synthesis. Specifically. the 'central dogma of molecular biology' (the thought that information only flows from DNA to RNA to protein) and the Weismann barrier...
08.31.2021
Is Covid-19 Evolving? No, but it sure is mutating fast!
People are constantly asking me, "Is Covid-19 evolving?" So I went ahead and recorded my answer. In short, no, there is nothing to suggest that it is on its way to becoming anything but a coronavirus. In fact, it should...
08.25.2021
The Amazing Braided Baramin Concept is Intrinsic to Creation
Dr Rob wraps up his 4-part series Species Were Designed to change by introducing a fascinating, profound, game-changing idea: the 'Braided Baramin Concept'. Species are not the 'created unit'. Baramins are. Species are ephemeral. Baramins are fixed, in that they...
08.11.2021
Classifying the Created Kinds Leads to Fascinating Results
This is the third installment in my Species Were Designed to Change series. Here, I take the concept of a baramin (a "created kind") and unpack it so that we can broaden our understanding of the range of possibilities inherent...
07.13.2021
Speciation and the Limits of Change
Location: Orphan Brigade Battlefield Park, Dallas, GA Notes and links: Species were designed to change, part 1: But how much change is allowed? Species were designed to change, part 2: Speciation and the limits of change Terborg P. 2008. Evidence for...
07.07.2021
God Deliberately Engineered Life to Change, but How Much Change is Allowed?
Dr Rob puts the smackdown on a tired old meme: the claim that the Bible teaches that God created all species just they appear today. In so doing, he outlines four important mechanisms that allow for 'change over time' within...
06.08.2021
The Waiting Time Problem
Location: Champ's Clock Shop, Douglasville, GA Dr Rob describes a contentious idea: the Waiting Time Problem. Mathematical simulations tells us that the rise of specific new mutations would take a fantastically long time. This is a serious challenge to evolution. Yet,...
06.04.2021
Ending Fetal Tissue Research Using Politics and the Potential Loss of Privacy
Location: Creation Research Society HQ at Arizona Christian University Links and notes: Creation Research Society membership page Common Rule of 1981 Moore v Regents of University of California Dickey-Wicker Amendment Fetal Tissue Research, part 3: Ethics Fetal Tissue Research, part 2:...

What's Biblical Genetics about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Biblical Genetics episodes:

Junk or genius? How functional is the human genome? Part 2

DNA – highly functional or mostly junk? Part 1

The Incredible Shrinking Human Genome

James 3 vs the anticreationists

Recombine-o-mania

Let’s talk about ancient DNA

African cichlids – ‘fast species’ are very, very biblical

Darwin’s Finches: the little birds that destroy evolution

Evolutionists predict super bottleneck (it would have killed us)

Human vs Chimp Part 3: a deep dive into how statistics are being misused

Human vs Chimp part 2

Human vs Chimp: an honest evaluation of our genetic differences

Eschatological Genetics

Fisher’s failure and the dramatic end of neo-Darwinism

Geeking out about DNA damage repair

Why you can’t trace your family tree to Adam and Eve

It’s an RNA world after all

Bacteria deceived us! Life is not simple

How I made fluorescent fish (a Christian response to genetic engineering)

Scopes, 100 years later: the lingering effects of the famous “monkey trial”

Can creationists make any real predictions? Or are they just preaching to the choir?

Sexual Recombination, complex genetics, and challenges to the Out-of-Africa theory

Things I no longer believe

Where are the skeletons of all the REALLY old people? Archaeology vs the Bible.

Genealogy vs Phylogeny: The War Continues

How the butterfly got its stripes

Why Egyptians are not ‘Black’

DNA of the Ancient Pharaohs

How did they build the pyramids so soon after Noah’s Flood?

Fighting among the creationists?

There is no Y Chromosome Clock

Evolution’s Wobbly Foundation

Adam and Eve did not live 200,000 years ago

Creation Research Society Summer Meeting 2022

Did we evolve from 10,000 people in Africa?

Seven reasons to believe that Adam was real

Old fathers are genetic poison

Apples are the perfect fruit…for discussing how things were designed to change

The Genetics of Modern Jews

Early Israel was a Hotbed of Interracial Dating

How long were the Israelites in Egypt?

The Jews, inbreeding, and false notions of ‘race’

The Barrier has been breached: new discoveries are challenging neo-Darwinism

Is Covid-19 Evolving? No, but it sure is mutating fast!

The Amazing Braided Baramin Concept is Intrinsic to Creation

Classifying the Created Kinds Leads to Fascinating Results

Speciation and the Limits of Change

God Deliberately Engineered Life to Change, but How Much Change is Allowed?

The Waiting Time Problem

Ending Fetal Tissue Research Using Politics and the Potential Loss of Privacy