Biblical Genetics

Privacy is dead. It never existed online, but even more importantly modern genetics has destroyed any sense of privacy. With millions of people in online databases, and with many of those accessible to the public, almost everybody is essentially identifiable. Criminals who perpetrated crimes long ago are being arrested. Family skeletons are no longer in the closet. Worse, or better, depending on your view, we have no privacy before a holy God.

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Patriarchal Drive is a strange phrase with profound implications. Simply put, very old people having children in a population adds many extra mutations per child. In the biblical model, centuries-old people would have been having children within a fairly small population. This creates a recipe for very long early branches on the family tree to form, and the length of these branches does not equal ‘time’. Hence, the molecular clock hypothesis is invalidated in the biblical model.

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Dr C delves into a difficult passage that deals with some improbable breeding experiments done by the Patriarch Jacob in Genesis 30 and 31. Some claim the genetics is all wrong. Others claim Jacob believed in magic. Neither is the case.

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There are massive racial tensions being expressed in the US and around the world today. While I cannot fix centuries of injustice and oppression in a 15-minute YouTube video, there are answers to the theological and scientific questions people are asking. Some of the answers have been around for a long time. Others can only be addressed with modern genetics, which tell us clearly that there is no such things as ‘race’. Biblically, all humans are equal in the eyes of God. Therefore, all humans should be equal in the eyes of the law, in education, and in economic opportunity. But, people are still selfish, biased, and bigoted. What we need is a good dose of the Gospel, because none of us deserve Heaven.

Location: Rob’s front porch, Hiram, Georgia.

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There are massive racial tensions being expressed in the US and around the world today. While I cannot fix centuries of injustice and oppression in a 15-minute YouTube video, there are answers to the theological and scientific questions people are asking. Some of the answers have been around for a long time. Others can only be addressed with modern genetics, which tell us clearly that there is no such things as ‘race’. Biblically, all humans are equal in the eyes of God. Therefore, all humans should be equal in the eyes of the law, in education, and in economic opportunity. But, people are still selfish, biased, and bigoted. What we need is a good dose of the Gospel, because none of us deserve Heaven.

Location: Rob’s front porch, Hiram, Georgia.

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We all struggle to explain where everything came from. The science of naturalism is the main approach used today, but naturalism, even though it is a great science for the laboratory, is a lousy science for origins. The alternative to naturalism is theism, and within theism is the biblical approach to origins–the idea that God made the universe through non-natural means. In fact, naturalism comes from Christian philosophy. If God created the universe, the universe should reflect the character of that God. Thus, law, constancy, predictability, and grandeur are pretty much guaranteed. So on the one hand, the universe is naturalistic. On the other hand, the universe was created. These two thoughts are not in conflict.

Location: Winding Stair Gap, Cartoogechaye, North Carolina

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Dr C revisits the idea of a genetic “bottleneck” and explains why the ‘out of Africa’ bottleneck would have been a disaster for our species.

Location: Silvermine Commercial Take-out #3, Nantahala National Forest, Bryson City, North Carolina

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Dr C explains what a genetic “bottleneck” is and why the massive inbreeding necessary in the biblical model is not a problem. First, there was inherently no mutation load at Creation, so there would be no problem with Adam and Eve’s children intermarrying. Ditto the grandchildren of Noah. In part 2, he’ll discuss the massive problems inherent in the Out of Africa bottleneck.

Location: Silvermine Commercial Take-out #3, Nantahala National Forest, Bryson City, North Carolina

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Location: Saguaro National Park, near Tucson, Arizona

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What’s your response going to be the first time you hear that a human has been cloned?  How are you going to react the first you hear that a baby has been born that has been genetically modified? What are you going to do when you go to the doctor with something and your doctor says, “Oh! We can fix that using genetic engineering. I ask those questions because they are not for tomorrow. They are not ten years from now. Those are questions that we are going to be facing in the immediate near future because they’re already possible to do.

Location: Banks of the Arkansas River, Carey Park, Hutchinson, Kansas

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