# A Skeptic Asks about The Compositional Approach

**URL:** <https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/a-skeptic-asks-about-the-compositional-approach/1793>\
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**Tags:** Theology\
**Created:** [September 23, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/a-skeptic-asks-about-the-compositional-approach/1793 "2018-09-23T23:37:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 12:11am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/a-skeptic-asks-about-the-compositional-approach/1793/7 "2018-09-24T00:11:24Z")

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> [@Literal Interpretations and the Genealogical Adam](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/literal-interpretations-and-the-genealogical-adam/1455/1):
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> - the word for “mankind” and “man” in Genesis 1 and 2 is “Adam” in Hebrew. Genesis 2 on is about the rise of the lineage of Adam, not about the biological origin of “human kind” as a whole. Genesis 1 is a different account that describes the creation (which could be by evolution) of a population of “adams” both male and female, not the individual Adam alone.

Do you understand this one?

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