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Tuesday 4 April 2023

"By One Man" - A Selective and Misleading Review of Christadelphian Thinking on Adam

When By One Man, an anti-evolutionary screed by Colin Byrnes and Matt Jamieson was released a few years ago,  I made the conscious decision to avoid commenting on it, reasoning that letting it sink into oblivion rather than give it the oxygen of publicity was by far the best option to take. Health issues also played a factor in not reviewing it as the last thing my mental health needed was to wade through yet another factually-inaccurate tendentious anti-evolution rant. In addition, given that the lack of truly new anti-evolution arguments meant that I was posting only intermittently, I simply didn't see the point in giving a frankly decaying horse yet another beating.  Ultimately, it doesn't matter how many quotations from 19th and 20the century authors you can string together, if the science undermines your fundamental premise, universal human descent from two people, then your argument is dead in the water and as tenable as defending a flat earth.