The Adam and the Genome Debate: Did Humans Descend from a Single Couple?

This passage and the debate that took place at the Biologos website about the book (Adam and the Genome) of Denis Venima is dangerous by any measure. A harsh lesson for evolutionists in particular, and for scientists in general. In short, the theory of evolution posits that the human race could not have originated from just one pair, and that humans must have descended from thousands of ancestors in order to be able to interpret the data found in current genetics. This story was the focus of the debate on the Biologos website, and the dialogue about Adam and the Genome continued for more than 1,000 publications, ending with a very unhappy ending for Venima. During the dialogue, demogeneticist Dr. Steve Schaffner conducted an experiment to test this hypothesis, and the result was amazing, there is a possibility that the human race emerged from a single pair 500,000 years ago. Computational biologist Dr. Joshua Swamidas was surprised, he said that he would conduct another experiment using another equation and another program, and came out of his experiment with almost the same result! The harsh lesson of this story is as expressed by Dr. Anne Geiger in the debate: "It is dangerous to generalize or over-interpret data, it is dangerous to go beyond what has already been explicitly tested. No one explicitly tested the bottleneck hypothesis of the two; it was a received tradition that, of course, we could not descend from two individuals. Dr. Geiger and other scientists from the intelligent design movement are working on different models to explain human evolution, and have already published two papers in the 2016 issue of BIO-Complexity. Video clip attached to the post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YjacYzeoUg — Source: Published on Facebook's "Braheen Center" page https://www.facebook.com/braheen.org/videos/1005477182964686