[Olog-hai]

“I told my kids growing up, if anyone ever asks you, ‘Do you believe Adam and Eve are real people?’, here is how you are to answer: do not say ‘Yes, because the Bible says Adam and Eve were real people,’” commented Stanley in an interview with Michael Brown last July. “You say this: ‘I believe Adam and Eve were historical characters because Jesus did. And when somebody predicts their own death and resurrection and pulls it off, I go with whatever they say.’” …

Funny no mention here of science acknowledging the existence of Eve, as well as humanity genetically descending from just two original humans, thus proving the Bible correct via that route.

[Ancesthntr]

“Funny no mention here of science acknowledging the existence of Eve, as well as humanity genetically descending from just two original humans, thus proving the Bible correct via that route.”

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While I believe in the Creation as related in the Book of Genesis, I would hesitate to state that science has proven the existence of Adam and Eve. I do know that there is a hypothesized Adam (from whom all males are descended) and a hypothesized Eve (from whom all females are descended). However, those two hypothesized individuals lived many tens of thousands of years apart.

My own position is that science still has some catching up to do, as it is not yet advanced enough to understand that the Bible is correct.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I believe that the study you implicitly referenced seems to verify the story of Noah, since we all genetically descended from just two people. The study implied the two were all that was left after some great calamity, say, a flood, maybe?

[mdmathis6]

I think actually Stanley’s anecdote about his kids and Adam and Eve is a good “additional response” in addition to your response which also good. Some folks eyes ALSO glaze over when the scientific responses are trotted out as well.

Paul offers a recounting of some personal disasters in 1 Corinthian 15 and in a sense asks...”would I go through all that for a fable?
“29If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? 30And why do we endanger ourselves every hour? 31I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised,

“Let us eat and drink,

for tomorrow we die.”

So I think Stanley is right to say...”Hey if Jesus predicted his own death and Resurrection and it happened then go with what he tells you to do and believe!”