Where did we come from?
One of the perennially annoying things about the "historical Adam" discussion is theologians' obsession with Homo sapiens . I've tried to explain on more than one occasion that looking for Adam at the base of the sapiens family tree is basically looking in the wrong place. Other than William Lane Craig, I can't think of a single theistic evolutionist actively placing Adam deeper in the human family tree. For myself, I follow creationist research that extends back thirty years and indicates that Homo erectus is also human (probably some others too, but they have less evidence so I'll stick to erectus ). There are lots of different reasons that creationists see things this way, including the sophisticated stone handaxes associated with erectus , the postcranial skeleton of Nariokotome boy, and the remarkable global mobility of these ancient people. Homo erectus is the first hominin in the fossil record that's found in Europe, Asia, and Africa. If you ...