# Best of BAM: The Search of the Historical Adam, and Q&A

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 8 Aug 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank comments on the article “The Search of the Historical Adam,” which talks of theistic evolutionist Francis Collins, the founder of BioLogos. Hank also answers the following questions: What does it mean to “read the Bible for all its worth?” Jamie - London, ON (8:28) Was the Immanuel prophecy of Isaiah 7:14 ever fulfilled? Elwood - KS (15:11) My friend thinks Jesus was not born of a virgin, and that Christianity worships a pagan sun god. What do I say to that? Tiffany - St. Louis, MO (17:50) Why did Jesus curse the fig tree? Tiffany - St. Louis, MO (23:33)

## Transcript

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[0:48] Speaker 2: We'll be going to your calls in just a few moments.
[0:51] Speaker 2: Night finished reading the CT story titled The Search for
[0:57] Speaker 2: the Historical Atom, and quite frankly, the illustrations inside in
[1:04] Speaker 2: the article itself are frankly repulsive. But the story is
[1:12] Speaker 2: about Francis Collins and the Biologists Foundation that he founded.
[1:21] Speaker 2: The article says Collins, one of the most eminent scientists
[1:25] Speaker 2: ever to identify as an evangelical Christian, staunchly defends Darwinian
[1:34] Speaker 2: evolution even as he insists on God as the creator
[1:42] Speaker 2: at issue the traditional tenet that God directly created Adam
[1:49] Speaker 2: and Eve Colin's two thousand and six best seller. The
[1:52] Speaker 2: argument goes on to say in the article in the
[1:56] Speaker 2: Language of God reported that modern humans emerged from primate
[2:03] Speaker 2: ancestors perhaps one hundred thousand years ago and originated with
[2:09] Speaker 2: a population that numbered something like ten thousand, not two individuals.
[2:17] Speaker 2: And in a recent pro evolution book from Interervarsity Press,
[2:22] Speaker 2: the Language of Science and Faith was the title, Collins
[2:25] Speaker 2: and his co author announced that, unfortunately, the concepts of
[2:30] Speaker 2: Adam and Eve as the literal first couple and the
[2:35] Speaker 2: ancestors of all humans simply quote do not fit the
[2:42] Speaker 2: evidence close quote. So the question, of course that arises
[2:49] Speaker 2: is this, did Adam and Eve really exist? And again
[2:56] Speaker 2: a growing number of Christian thinkers say no. Francis Collins
[3:02] Speaker 2: is among them. In his view, science dictates that modern
[3:09] Speaker 2: humans emerged from primates one hundred thousand years ago, as
[3:14] Speaker 2: I just read in the article, in a population numbering
[3:19] Speaker 2: around ten thousand, certainly not Adam and Eve war two.
[3:25] Speaker 2: And not only so, but according to biologous expert Peter Ends,
[3:31] Speaker 2: the Bible itself invites a symbolic reading respecting the first
[3:36] Speaker 2: man and woman. So again the question did Adam and
[3:40] Speaker 2: Eve exist or are they merely allegorical? And we have
[3:45] Speaker 2: to have an answer to that because a lot of
[3:47] Speaker 2: people now using the label evangelical Christians are using the
[3:54] Speaker 2: argument that they are allegorical. Problem with that. First, when
[4:03] Speaker 2: Collins and company staunchly defend Darwinian evolution, their views failed
[4:11] Speaker 2: to correspond with reality. Darwin hung his hopes on hundreds
[4:17] Speaker 2: of thousands of transitional forms leading to the fossils of
[4:21] Speaker 2: the Cambrian explosion, while in actuality none appear. Instead, virtually
[4:28] Speaker 2: all known body plans appear abruptly in the Cambrian. Plainly put,
[4:35] Speaker 2: the Cambrian radiation vaporizes the Darwinian tree of life. Moreover,
[4:45] Speaker 2: molecular biology has increasingly become an intractable enigma for Darwinian dogmatists.
[4:56] Speaker 2: A second point is this scripture plainly opposes the collective
[5:04] Speaker 2: rhetoric of theistic evolutionists who deny the reality of the
[5:10] Speaker 2: historical Adam and Eve. And Paul made that crystal clear.
[5:14] Speaker 2: He said from one man, God made every nation of
[5:18] Speaker 2: men that they should inhabit the whole earth. In fact,
[5:22] Speaker 2: sacred scripture, in concert with science, makes plain that kinds
[5:29] Speaker 2: reproduce according to their kinds. Moreover, had the first Atom
[5:35] Speaker 2: not fallen into a life of perpetual sin terminated by death,
[5:38] Speaker 2: there would have been no need for a second Atom.
[5:43] Speaker 2: And Paul was emphatic, since death came through a man,
[5:48] Speaker 2: the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
[5:52] Speaker 2: For as Adam we all die, so in Christ all
[5:56] Speaker 2: will be made alive. One final point, and this I
[6:00] Speaker 2: think is the quintessential point. Our Saviour's words should cast
[6:05] Speaker 2: a pall on all Adam and Eve deniers. At the beginning,
[6:11] Speaker 2: said Jesus, the Creator made them male in female, And
[6:15] Speaker 2: lest one be tempted to allegorize the words of our Lord,
[6:19] Speaker 2: it is instructive to note that Jesus further affirmed a
[6:23] Speaker 2: historical Adam and Eve when he referenced the murder of
[6:26] Speaker 2: their son Abel. Not only so, but Luke, who was
[6:32] Speaker 2: writing to a primarily gentile audience, extends the genealogy of
[6:37] Speaker 2: Jesus past Abraham to the first Adam, thus highlighting Christ
[6:42] Speaker 2: the second Atom as the savior of all humanity. And
[6:48] Speaker 2: should that prove insufficient, Chronicles provides a historical record from
[6:54] Speaker 2: Adam to the exile. Likewise, Moses provides the written account
[7:02] Speaker 2: of Adam's line. So if one thing you can be sure.
[7:07] Speaker 2: Though Genesis is a historical narrative that is interlaced with
[7:12] Speaker 2: Jewish poetry, it is hardly an allegory. Again, this involves
[7:22] Speaker 2: learning to read the Bible for all it's worth. And
[7:29] Speaker 2: I think it's sad that we live in a time
[7:33] Speaker 2: in which we are under prepared to deal with the
[7:37] Speaker 2: worst of all possibilities, which is this theistic evolutionary paradigm,
[7:43] Speaker 2: which is, as I just mentioned, growing increasingly popular. You
[7:50] Speaker 2: should read the quotes from the evangelical scholars in this
[7:57] Speaker 2: article that are supporting the notion that there was not
[8:03] Speaker 2: a first Adam and Eve, not a population of two,
[8:08] Speaker 2: but a population of ten thousand plus. It's time that
[8:14] Speaker 2: we are equipped to always be ready to give an answer,
[8:16] Speaker 2: a reason for the hope that lies within us, with
[8:19] Speaker 2: gentleness and with respect, and certainly when it comes to
[8:25] Speaker 2: the issue of origins. Let's go right to the phone lines.
[8:29] Speaker 2: First up, as Jamie listening on Serious XEM one one
[8:33] Speaker 2: in London, Ontario.
[8:35] Speaker 3: Hi, Jamie him you just said something reading the Bible
[8:40] Speaker 3: for all it's worth.
[8:41] Speaker 4: What do you mean by that?
[8:43] Speaker 2: What I mean is that we need to be able
[8:46] Speaker 2: to apply the art and science of biblical interpretation in
[8:50] Speaker 2: reading the Bible. And I've said this on the Bible
[8:53] Speaker 2: answer Man broadcast before. It's a science and that rules apply,
[8:57] Speaker 2: it's an art, and that the more you apply the rules,
[8:59] Speaker 2: the better you get at it.
[9:01] Speaker 1: Okay, So just like reading the Bible through, is that
[9:05] Speaker 1: not reading it.
[9:06] Speaker 3: For alls worth or not?
[9:07] Speaker 2: Well, you need to know how to read the scripture
[9:10] Speaker 2: because if you don't know how to read the scripture,
[9:12] Speaker 2: you can come up with all kinds of bad interpretations,
[9:16] Speaker 2: which is to say, you can take a historical narrative
[9:19] Speaker 2: and misread the historical narrative as though it were an allegory. Conversely,
[9:26] Speaker 2: you could read apocalyptic literature and you could read meanings
[9:32] Speaker 2: into phrases, which are more a function of a fertile
[9:37] Speaker 2: imagination than a function of reading scripture in light of scripture,
[9:41] Speaker 2: which is precisely what we are called to do. We
[9:44] Speaker 2: are to interpret the Bible in light of the Bible.
[9:47] Speaker 2: And unfortunately, people don't read whole books at a time.
[9:52] Speaker 2: They read little bits and pieces here and there and
[9:55] Speaker 2: cobble them together, and as a result of that they
[9:58] Speaker 2: end up with a bad reading a scripture which is
[10:00] Speaker 2: precisely what we're dealing with in the Kingdom of the Cults,
[10:03] Speaker 2: and now, unfortunately it has migrated into Christianity where we
[10:08] Speaker 2: don't know how to read the Bible for all it's worth.
[10:11] Speaker 2: For example, if the Bible tells you that God walked
[10:16] Speaker 2: with Adam and even the cool of the day, does
[10:18] Speaker 2: that mean God has feet? No, it doesn't mean that.
[10:22] Speaker 2: And the reason you answered that question correctly is because
[10:26] Speaker 2: you obviously know how to read the Bible for all
[10:30] Speaker 2: it's worth. That's the point.
[10:32] Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right.
[10:35] Speaker 1: Do you guys have any books on that.
[10:39] Speaker 4: So you can answer people that have questions about it.
[10:42] Speaker 2: Yeah, We've got all kinds of literature available on that.
[10:45] Speaker 2: I've written a book on this called The Face that
[10:47] Speaker 2: demonstrates the Farce of Evolution. There's a monograph form of
[10:51] Speaker 2: that as well, called Fatal Flaws. In terms of reading
[10:56] Speaker 2: the Bible for all it's worth, there's a flip chart
[10:58] Speaker 2: that I put together called Lights and Your Path to
[11:01] Speaker 2: reading the Bible for all It's worth, I think would
[11:03] Speaker 2: be helpful to you as well. All of that is
[11:05] Speaker 2: found on thewebitequipped dot org.
[11:08] Speaker 4: Okay, Thank you very much, Thanks, Hey.
[11:10] Speaker 2: You got it. Thank you so much for your colte.
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[15:12] Speaker 2: Doctor Ellwood next in Kansas, Hey Elwood?
[15:16] Speaker 5: Hi?
[15:16] Speaker 3: Thank How are you Don good? How are you fine?
[15:20] Speaker 3: Thank you? Okay. I'm still in the King James version,
[15:25] Speaker 3: in part because it's still my favorite version. Isaiah seven
[15:28] Speaker 3: fourteen says Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold,
[15:34] Speaker 3: a virgin shall conceive and Bearisan, and shall call his
[15:38] Speaker 3: name Emmanuel. And has that ever been that prophecy ever
[15:42] Speaker 3: been fulfilled?
[15:44] Speaker 2: Yeah, the prophecy was fulfilled in Isaiah chapter eight, first
[15:48] Speaker 2: of all, but it's ultimately fulfilled in our Lord and Savior,
[15:52] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. This is an example of what's called typological prophecy,
[15:58] Speaker 2: which is different from predictive prophecy. Predictive prophecies are straightforward prophecies,
[16:04] Speaker 2: such as what you find in Micah chapter five, where
[16:07] Speaker 2: Jesus is prophesied to be born in Bethlehem Ephreta, and
[16:12] Speaker 2: that is fulfilled in a direct predictive way, so it's
[16:17] Speaker 2: the fulfillment of predictive prophecy. This, however, is called typological prophecy,
[16:23] Speaker 2: first fulfilled in Isaiah chapter eight and typologically fulfilled in
[16:30] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. And this is one of those incredible features
[16:35] Speaker 2: of the book that I wrote. Has God Spoken? One
[16:38] Speaker 2: of the chapters is on typological prophecy, And what I
[16:42] Speaker 2: do is I talk about this conversation which goes on
[16:47] Speaker 2: between Matt, who's a new Christian and he's zealous for
[16:50] Speaker 2: the things of God, and he finds a book on
[16:53] Speaker 2: evidences and begins memorizing a list of prophecies made in
[16:57] Speaker 2: the Old Testament fulfilled in the New and his favorite
[16:59] Speaker 2: is this prophecy, the virgin birth prophecy of Isaiah seven fourteen.
[17:05] Speaker 2: And he thought, if ever there was a clear cut
[17:08] Speaker 2: case of fulfilled prophecy, that was it. But he doesn't
[17:12] Speaker 2: recognize the difference between predictive prophecy and typological prophecy. So
[17:17] Speaker 2: when he goes to his coworker and starts to talk
[17:19] Speaker 2: about it, he immediately gets into a ringer, and he
[17:23] Speaker 2: doesn't know how to extract himself. And the story starts
[17:26] Speaker 2: to then explain the difference between typological prophecy and predictive prophecy,
[17:32] Speaker 2: and if we don't understand the difference, the conundrum that
[17:37] Speaker 2: that causes. It doesn't end up helping us to share
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[17:52] Speaker 2: is Tiffany. She's listening in Saint Louis, Missouri.
[17:56] Speaker 4: Hi, Tiffany, Hi, nice to talk for you.
[17:59] Speaker 2: It's nice to talk to you.
[18:00] Speaker 4: My question is Okay. I have a friend that tells
[18:03] Speaker 4: me that Jesus was not born of a virgin birth,
[18:07] Speaker 4: that virgin in Hebrew only means young girl, and that
[18:12] Speaker 4: when Mary became pregnant, she was actually pregnant by Joseph
[18:17] Speaker 4: and he hid her because what they did was wrong.
[18:21] Speaker 4: And I'm trying to find out exactly, you know, across
[18:26] Speaker 4: from my understanding and from when I read, I see
[18:30] Speaker 4: that Jesus was actually born a virgin birth. I mean that,
[18:33] Speaker 4: And I don't understand how come somebody can, you know,
[18:37] Speaker 4: come up with another story when they read it. And
[18:40] Speaker 4: another thing I have to say is that I go
[18:42] Speaker 4: to church on a Sunday, and this person says that
[18:46] Speaker 4: when I go to church on Sundays, I'm worshiping a
[18:50] Speaker 4: son God and not actual the God of the Bible,
[18:53] Speaker 4: and that his name really isn't Jesus, and so on
[18:56] Speaker 4: and so forth. And I want to know, well, you're
[19:00] Speaker 4: take on it? You know? What do I say or
[19:03] Speaker 4: do I even say anything?
[19:05] Speaker 2: Yes, I mean we want to use all these as
[19:07] Speaker 2: opportunities to reach, as opposed to repel. Every opportunity becomes
[19:13] Speaker 2: an opportunity to be equipped for evangelism. I've often said
[19:18] Speaker 2: that the issue is never evangelism, but equipping for evangelism.
[19:22] Speaker 2: So you're asked these kinds of questions, and what does
[19:25] Speaker 2: it do? It drives you into learning, and as you learn,
[19:28] Speaker 2: you can use your will reason to answer as an
[19:30] Speaker 2: opportunity or a springboard to share the truth and the
[19:35] Speaker 2: love and the life that Jesus Christ can bring to
[19:38] Speaker 2: another human heart by which that human heart can be
[19:42] Speaker 2: transformed so that that person can experience what you are
[19:46] Speaker 2: now experiencing life, that is life. Indeed, as far as
[19:52] Speaker 2: the actual questions are concerned, let's look at this. Jesus
[19:57] Speaker 2: Christ is born of a virgin. The text tells us that,
[20:02] Speaker 2: in fact, the Isaiah seven fourteen passage is typologically fulfilled
[20:09] Speaker 2: in Jesus Christ. So we see that while Isaiah's wife
[20:15] Speaker 2: was in fact a young woman with child, Jesus Christ
[20:21] Speaker 2: was born of a virgin. So you see escalation and
[20:27] Speaker 2: heightening in the fulfillment of the prophecy in Jesus Christ,
[20:31] Speaker 2: and the text actually telling us that Jesus Christ was
[20:36] Speaker 2: born of a virgin. But think of the alternative. The
[20:40] Speaker 2: alternative is that Mary is a sexually promiscuous young girl,
[20:46] Speaker 2: and that Jesus Christ is an illegitimate child. This is
[20:53] Speaker 2: not peripheral or secondary. This is essential. Now, what causes
[21:00] Speaker 2: people to say Jesus was not born of a virgin
[21:05] Speaker 2: is that they are closed to the possibility of a
[21:09] Speaker 2: universe in which supernatural things happen. But as a Christian,
[21:15] Speaker 2: we are not closed minded on this issue at all.
[21:17] Speaker 2: We open mindedly conceive of the possibility that Jesus could
[21:23] Speaker 2: be born of a virgin because God spoke in the universe,
[21:29] Speaker 2: leapt into existence, because God can do all things that
[21:36] Speaker 2: are logically possible, which is to say, obviously God cannot
[21:40] Speaker 2: create a squared circle because squared circles don't exist. That's
[21:45] Speaker 2: not logically possible. But can God allow Jesus to be
[21:49] Speaker 2: born of a virgin? Yes, he could. In fact he did.
[21:54] Speaker 2: And the reason we believe that is not only because
[21:57] Speaker 2: we believe in the supernatural, but also because we believe
[22:01] Speaker 2: the Bible is the infallible repository of redemptive revelation. Again,
[22:06] Speaker 2: not something that is believed through blind faith, but rather
[22:12] Speaker 2: through faith in evidence.
[22:15] Speaker 4: Now I go to church on a Sunday, am I
[22:17] Speaker 4: this person seems to think I'm worshiping a sun God
[22:20] Speaker 4: and not the actual God of the Bible, because they
[22:24] Speaker 4: do everything on a Saturday, which they say that's today
[22:27] Speaker 4: you're supposed to keep well.
[22:29] Speaker 2: Not so. And again the point of scripture is always
[22:32] Speaker 2: a cycle of six days that you work and one
[22:36] Speaker 2: day that you rest. And the rest is emblematic of
[22:40] Speaker 2: the rest that we have in Jesus Christ, who, through
[22:45] Speaker 2: his resurrection ensures eternal life. So the Christian Church changed
[22:52] Speaker 2: the day of worship to Sunday because we are celebrating
[22:58] Speaker 2: the resurrection of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, in
[23:03] Speaker 2: whom we have our Sabbath rest. So the psychle continues,
[23:09] Speaker 2: and the day is emblematic of the rest we have
[23:14] Speaker 2: in Jesus Christ. So we obey that commandment. And when
[23:18] Speaker 2: we get together, we're not worshiping a sun god, as
[23:21] Speaker 2: though the sun rises in the east and sets in
[23:24] Speaker 2: the west. No, we are celebrating the resurrection, the rising
[23:30] Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ from the dead.
[23:32] Speaker 4: Okay, and I have one more question, yeap over in
[23:36] Speaker 4: Mark eleven. This really confuses me. When Jesus cursed the
[23:41] Speaker 4: fig tree, could you explain to me why he cursed
[23:44] Speaker 4: the fig tree. I'm just trying to figure out. I mean,
[23:47] Speaker 4: they say it in the Bible that it was not
[23:49] Speaker 4: its time to produce, So why did he curse the
[23:53] Speaker 4: fig tree?
[23:54] Speaker 2: Yeah, And these kinds of questions are often raised as
[23:58] Speaker 2: though in some way or other, Jesus Christ the Bible
[24:03] Speaker 2: is irrational, irrelevant, or is simply communicating things which don't
[24:10] Speaker 2: have a correspondence to reality. But actually, what is going
[24:15] Speaker 2: on does correspond to reality, because what's going on here
[24:21] Speaker 2: is in the morning, as the disciples went along, they
[24:24] Speaker 2: saw the fig tree withered from the roots. And then
[24:28] Speaker 2: Peter remembers and says to Jesus, Rabbi, look, the fig
[24:33] Speaker 2: tree you cursed has withered. Well, that has real significance.
[24:39] Speaker 2: The significance is seen in a lot of different ways.
[24:44] Speaker 2: A couple of things that you see here is that
[24:49] Speaker 2: the fig tree was emblematic of something. It was not
[24:54] Speaker 2: the season for figs, thus it was also not the
[24:58] Speaker 2: time for fig leaves. Jesus is using the fig tree
[25:03] Speaker 2: as an objective lesson for God's judgment, which surely will
[25:10] Speaker 2: come to those who have an appearance of fruitfulness but
[25:17] Speaker 2: do not have the inward reality of fruitfulness. So this
[25:22] Speaker 2: is an example of God using physical realities to point
[25:26] Speaker 2: to spiritual truth. So it's not random, it's not capricious,
[25:30] Speaker 2: it's not without meaning. It has significant, powerful, poignant meaning.
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[27:17] Speaker 5: how we can experience the height of human existence union
[27:21] Speaker 5: with God in Christ. Simply put, the map is not
[27:24] Speaker 5: the territory. The menu is not the meal. We cheat
[27:28] Speaker 5: ourselves of authentic union with Christ when we elevate the
[27:31] Speaker 5: message above the Messiah. Truth Matters, Life Matters More is
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[27:38] Speaker 5: the great theological minds of our time. To receive Truth Matters,
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