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

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 27 Jul 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (07/27/26), 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) How does the days of creation being literal 24-hour days work? John - Memphis, TN (15:12) I have family who are Jehovah’s Witnesses and believe they are among the 144,000. What is the 144,000? Pat - Kansas City, MO (19:11)

## 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 men,
[5:19] Speaker 2: that they should inhabit the whole earth. In fact, sacred scripture,
[5:24] Speaker 2: in concert with science, makes plain that kinds reproduce according
[5:30] Speaker 2: to their kinds. Moreover, had the first Atom not fallen
[5:35] Speaker 2: into a life of perpetual sin terminated by death, there
[5:39] Speaker 2: would have been no need for a second Atom. And
[5:43] Speaker 2: Paul was emphatic, since death came through a man, the
[5:48] Speaker 2: resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For
[5:52] Speaker 2: as Adam we all die, so in Christ all will
[5:56] Speaker 2: be made alive. One final point, and this I think
[6:00] Speaker 2: is the quintessential point. Our Saviour's words should cast a
[6:05] Speaker 2: 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 3: Okay, So just like reading the Bible through, is that
[9:05] Speaker 3: not reading it 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. Do you guys have any books
[10:37] Speaker 3: on that so you can answer people that have questions
[10:41] Speaker 3: 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.
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[15:12] Speaker 2: Back to the phone lines. Next up, John, He's listening
[15:15] Speaker 2: to Memphis, Tennessee.
[15:17] Speaker 3: Hi, John, thanks for taking my call. I've heard you
[15:20] Speaker 3: say that you believe that the six days were literal
[15:23] Speaker 3: solar days and talk about the possibility it could you know,
[15:29] Speaker 3: still have been millions of years ago. How does that
[15:31] Speaker 3: all work together? Was it like a solar day at
[15:35] Speaker 3: a certain time then time past or another solar day,
[15:38] Speaker 3: or how does that work together?
[15:41] Speaker 2: Well? The way of trying to explain this in the
[15:43] Speaker 2: past is by analogy, and let's go to the Book
[15:46] Speaker 2: of Job where God asked Job, who tips over the
[15:50] Speaker 2: water pots of heaven? If I ask you are those
[15:55] Speaker 2: literal water pots? What would you say?
[15:59] Speaker 3: They're not?
[16:00] Speaker 2: Well. In the analogy, we're talking about literal water pots,
[16:05] Speaker 2: but it's not intended to communicate that there are water
[16:08] Speaker 2: pots in heaven and every time God wants it to
[16:11] Speaker 2: rainy tips the pots. And the same thing I think
[16:15] Speaker 2: is true when you get to the book of Genesis.
[16:18] Speaker 2: What's important is that you understand the purposes of God
[16:24] Speaker 2: in creation. So we want to make sure that we're
[16:28] Speaker 2: not anthropocentric in our interpretations, nor do we want to
[16:34] Speaker 2: take an outline that's given to us and then tamper
[16:40] Speaker 2: with that outline, which is to say, there's an outline
[16:43] Speaker 2: there for a reason, and it is associated with the
[16:47] Speaker 2: days for a reason, not the least of which is
[16:50] Speaker 2: that we might remember the Lord or God always as
[16:54] Speaker 2: we are instructed to do as a result of the decalogue.
[16:57] Speaker 2: So the days are given to us as little rual
[17:00] Speaker 2: days for a purpose. Now, once someone starts playing around
[17:04] Speaker 2: with this, you end up with all kinds of perversions,
[17:08] Speaker 2: and that, unfortunately, is precisely what is happening. I mean,
[17:11] Speaker 2: passages like Isaiah forty twenty two are being used for
[17:15] Speaker 2: all kinds of purposes, saying, well, God sits on the
[17:18] Speaker 2: circle of the earth. The Bible teaches the sphericity of
[17:22] Speaker 2: the earth. Well, certainly of the earth is a sphere,
[17:26] Speaker 2: But is that passage intended to communicate that? Better be
[17:29] Speaker 2: very careful in answering that question, because people use the
[17:33] Speaker 2: same language to show that God spreads out the earth
[17:37] Speaker 2: like a tent, and then say, see the Bible teaches
[17:39] Speaker 2: a flat earth, or the people are grasshoppers, and therefore say, well,
[17:45] Speaker 2: I guess maybe we evolve from grasshoppers or from insects.
[17:49] Speaker 2: I mean, the point here is you have to read
[17:51] Speaker 2: the Bible for all it's worth. And again to go
[17:54] Speaker 2: back to those days of creation. When you tamper with
[17:57] Speaker 2: the text, you end up with a pretext, which is
[18:01] Speaker 2: to say, you have people, on the one hand, not
[18:03] Speaker 2: taking the text seriously. The literal text says there was
[18:07] Speaker 2: evening and morning the first day and so on through
[18:11] Speaker 2: the second and third day. And then people say, well, yeah,
[18:16] Speaker 2: but there wasn't really evening and morning because these weren't
[18:20] Speaker 2: really solar days. Yes they were, They're communicated as solar days.
[18:24] Speaker 2: That's what the text says. So now they want to
[18:26] Speaker 2: take this and say, well, the light was something other
[18:29] Speaker 2: than solar light. On the other hand, you have people
[18:31] Speaker 2: that cast geological ages into the text and they say
[18:34] Speaker 2: something different. They say, well, yeah, these were geological ages,
[18:40] Speaker 2: and the sun was created on day one, but the
[18:45] Speaker 2: sky was not translucent and therefore the sun, moon, and
[18:50] Speaker 2: stars didn't appear. But you have to scratch your chin
[18:53] Speaker 2: and then ask, well, how did plants survive without direct sunlight? So,
[18:57] Speaker 2: in other words, once you start tampering with the text
[19:00] Speaker 2: and don't take the text in its literal sense read
[19:04] Speaker 2: it his literature, then you are going to miss God's
[19:08] Speaker 2: purposes in creation, which is the main point. Let's go
[19:11] Speaker 2: back the phone lines talk to Pat listening on Kansas City, Missouri.
[19:14] Speaker 6: Hi, Pat, Hi, how are you today?
[19:17] Speaker 2: I'm good, nice talking to you.
[19:19] Speaker 6: Oh yeah, thanks you for taking my call. My family,
[19:23] Speaker 6: my grandmother at some point in time evidently became a
[19:27] Speaker 6: Jehovah's witness and saw a lot of my family are
[19:31] Speaker 6: Jehovah's witnesses. So I have been, you know, around this
[19:36] Speaker 6: all my life. They've tried to, you know, get me
[19:39] Speaker 6: to go to the church. I went there for a while.
[19:42] Speaker 6: I never believed in what they were teaching because I
[19:47] Speaker 6: always saw it as rustles, you know, adaptation of the
[19:54] Speaker 6: Christian belief. But my Christian basically is one of my
[19:59] Speaker 6: home truly believes that he's one of the one hundred
[20:02] Speaker 6: and forty four thousand that Revelation speaks about, and he
[20:07] Speaker 6: says that you know that he's going to go to
[20:10] Speaker 6: heaven and sit on the throne with God, and then
[20:15] Speaker 6: everybody else there will be a new heaven and a
[20:17] Speaker 6: new Earth created, and you know, the lions will lay
[20:21] Speaker 6: down with the lambs, and that everybody else is going
[20:24] Speaker 6: to live on earth. But it will be a new
[20:28] Speaker 6: Earth and it will be you know, well, there will
[20:31] Speaker 6: be no sin and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
[20:36] Speaker 6: And I know this talks about this in the Bible,
[20:39] Speaker 6: but what really is the one hundred and forty four thousand?
[20:46] Speaker 6: And then I'll have a follow up question to that. All.
[20:49] Speaker 2: Well, the one hundred and forty four thousand kind of
[20:52] Speaker 2: interesting because we're talking about the art and signs of
[20:54] Speaker 2: Biblical interpretation on this broadcast. The one hundred and forty
[20:57] Speaker 2: four thousand the Great Multitude are actually not two different peoples,
[21:01] Speaker 2: as the Jehovah's witnesses suppose, but there are two different
[21:04] Speaker 2: ways of describing the same purified bride. Literarily, the one
[21:11] Speaker 2: hundred and forty four thousand the Great Multitude are comparable
[21:15] Speaker 2: to the lion and the Lamb. So here's the comparison.
[21:19] Speaker 2: John is told about a lion, and he turns to
[21:23] Speaker 2: see a lamb, and in the same way, he's told
[21:26] Speaker 2: about one hundred and forty four thousand, and he turns
[21:28] Speaker 2: to see a great multitude. The point here is that
[21:33] Speaker 2: the one hundred and forty four thousand is to the
[21:36] Speaker 2: Great Multitude what the lion is to the Lamb, the
[21:40] Speaker 2: same entity, not different entities, A little flock and a
[21:45] Speaker 2: great multitude it's the same entities seen from two different
[21:51] Speaker 2: vintage points. From one vintage point, the purified bride is numbered,
[21:55] Speaker 2: and from the other she's innumerable, a great multitude that
[21:59] Speaker 2: no one can count. So my point is the one
[22:03] Speaker 2: hundred and forty four thousand is the full complement of
[22:06] Speaker 2: God's people. This is a literary construction, and people who
[22:12] Speaker 2: read the whole Bible, rather than picking little spots here
[22:15] Speaker 2: and there, as Jehovah's witnesses do, will know that immediately. Again,
[22:20] Speaker 2: it just takes reading through the Bible to get the point.
[22:24] Speaker 2: So the one hundred and forty four thousand is not
[22:26] Speaker 2: a little flock that has a special dispensation that the
[22:31] Speaker 2: rest of people do not have. Secondly, here's an important point.
[22:37] Speaker 2: The new Heaven and the new Earth, rightly interpreted, goes
[22:42] Speaker 2: hand in hand with our new body, which means it
[22:46] Speaker 2: is not an altogether different body, but it is this
[22:51] Speaker 2: body that has resurrected, immortal, imperishable, incorruptible. Likewise, paradise lost
[22:59] Speaker 2: will become restored. God does not scrap things, He redeems them,
[23:03] Speaker 2: and that is precisely what he is going to do
[23:06] Speaker 2: with his universe. He is going to redeem it. He's
[23:09] Speaker 2: going to remove the stain. It now groans and travail.
[23:14] Speaker 2: It's awaiting its liberation from bondage to decay. But then
[23:18] Speaker 2: it will be restored to what it was before the fall.
[23:27] Speaker 2: No more death, mourning, crying, or pain.
[23:30] Speaker 6: Okay, so it has since then there will be a
[23:33] Speaker 6: new earth that we will live on, and it will
[23:36] Speaker 6: be a perfect earth.
[23:38] Speaker 2: Yes, I mean where did Adam and Eve live? Yes,
[23:42] Speaker 2: and this universe would have been their playground. The beauty
[23:49] Speaker 2: is that the universe will be restored again. The operative phrase.
[23:54] Speaker 2: God does not scrap things. He redeems them. So he's
[23:57] Speaker 2: going to redeem this universe. If he didn't, Satan would
[24:00] Speaker 2: have won a wonderful battle. But he didn't. God is
[24:03] Speaker 2: going to create the best of all possible worlds. He
[24:08] Speaker 2: created it as volitional beings. Adam and Eve, we're volitional beings.
[24:14] Speaker 2: We can choose to have a relationship with God, and
[24:17] Speaker 2: if we do, we will not only be resurrected I mortal, imperishable,
[24:21] Speaker 2: and in corruptible, but we will live in a renewed
[24:24] Speaker 2: universe with a resurrected Savior. That's the hope of Christianity.
[24:29] Speaker 2: So Christianity is not some platonic faith where everything is ethereal.
[24:34] Speaker 2: I go to these funerals quite frankly, and here even
[24:37] Speaker 2: jo pastors talking about someone being up there somewhere in
[24:43] Speaker 2: the resurrection. You know, when Jesus returns, we're going to
[24:45] Speaker 2: be up there somewhere, as though we're going to be
[24:48] Speaker 2: Casper the ghosts drumming a harp on a cloud. No,
[24:51] Speaker 2: we're going to be physically resurrected people. The Christian faith
[24:55] Speaker 2: is physical. It's not platonic. We are going to be physical.
[24:59] Speaker 2: That's what it it means to be human. So if
[25:01] Speaker 2: someone dies when Jesus Christ appears the second time, that
[25:05] Speaker 2: person is resurrected. If they're still alive, they're transformed. And
[25:12] Speaker 2: so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore, comfort
[25:15] Speaker 2: one another with these words. And that's precisely what's going
[25:18] Speaker 2: on with the new Heaven and New Earth. In Revelation
[25:21] Speaker 2: chapter twenty one, God himself will be with us. We
[25:24] Speaker 2: will be his people. He will be our God. He'll
[25:27] Speaker 2: wipe every tear from our eyes. There'll be no more
[25:29] Speaker 2: death or mourning or crying or pain, for the older
[25:32] Speaker 2: things will have passed away. Behold, I make all things
[25:36] Speaker 2: new that's our hope, that's our promise, that's our heritage,
[25:39] Speaker 2: that's our future. That's why we can not live for
[25:44] Speaker 2: political correctness. I mean, I'll tell you what. The pressure
[25:49] Speaker 2: for me in my position to be politically correct is enormous.
[25:53] Speaker 2: But if you live with eternity in mind, it becomes small.
[25:56] Speaker 2: And that's the point we should live. We're aliens, we're sojourners.
[26:00] Speaker 2: We're on our way to another kingdom. Out of time
[26:03] Speaker 2: for this edition of the Bible Landsman Broadcast, We'll be
[26:05] Speaker 2: right back here tomorrow, however, with more of the show.
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