[Iscool]

I do however believe in Adam and Eve. In fact, research in genetics traces all DNA back to a single man and woman living in Africa.

Africa??? Well I thought Eden included the area around the Fertile Crescent...Who'd a thought Adam and Eve were Africans...

[bdeaner]

The fertile crescent in the Near East is not all that far from Africa. Current evidence has traced human ancestry all the way back to a single Eve which they trace to Ethiopia.

We'll have to see how the data unfolds.

Theology is deductive -- we start with basic, immutable principles, and then we draw inferences. Science is inductive: we start with the evidence and see if it matches current theories, or see if we need to modify our current theories. These are two different ways of thinking, but can and do converge on a single Truth. But that takes patience to work out, and to some extent much is still a mystery.