My name is Adam.

My name is Eith.

I was the first man to live and breathe.

God made the ocean.

He made it blue.

He told us don't eat forbidden fruit.

Bill, that always gets our attention when a major news outlet mentions your name, in this case.

The Daily Mail in the UK has a report from their science editor, William Hunter, on the evidence for Adam and Eve.

It seems to have some characteristics of popular press sensationalism, but maybe this provides some teaching moments from you on today's

podcast, Bill.

I think you're right, Kevin, that the article does involve some sensationalism. And it was

noteworthy to me that Hunter did not bother to interview either Josh Swamidas or me, even though he apparently knows of our published work on the topic.

So we had no input into this article at all.

Let's go through the main points of this report.

The first line says, quote, it's a story that almost any Christian would be

instantly familiar with. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were the first man and woman on

earth. End of quote. Most of his readers would probably agree with that, Bill.

Yes, they would, and I think that's what makes the challenge of Josh

Swami Das' model so interesting. On Swami Das' view, Adam and Eve are the progenitors of everyone

alive on Earth today, but they are not the ancestors of every person who has ever lived on earth.

So one of the challenging things about Swami Das' position is that he denies this traditional

belief.

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