Comments on Three Reviews at BioLogos

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@John_Harshman

@swamidass

You are meaning “sole” that they are the only ancestors in the earliest generation.

What does “earliest generation” mean? I suppose it means the generation in which AE lived.

Yes.

I used that terminology, because your’s isn’t precise enough. We do not all only or solely descend from Adam and Eve (even if there are people outside the garden!). For example, I also descend from my father and mother. Adam and Eve are not unique ancestors of mine. Of course, there are more than just AE that are universal ancestors of all of us too!

@Puck_Mendelssohn explained sole-progenitor by your definition far more precisely in his review:

@Puck_Mendelssohn

a factual scenario where Adam and Eve are the only humans, created in a world where there never have been any humans at all, a few thousand years ago, and are not merely among our ancestors but, at that level of our family tree, our only ancestors.

@John_Harshman

Again, they are the sole progenitors of “textual humanness”, but they are not the sole progenitors of anything else, including even textual humans.

Well that is self contradictory. They are the sole couple that gives rise to textual humanness, the sole couple from whom we must descend to be in that group. In that sense, they are our sole progenitors.