# Is it "Deceptive" to say the GAE is "Consistent With" Evolution?

**URL:** <https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/is-it-deceptive-to-say-the-gae-is-consistent-with-evolution/13661>\
**Category:** Conversation\
**Tags:** Adam, Science, Philosophy\
**Created:** [April 28, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/is-it-deceptive-to-say-the-gae-is-consistent-with-evolution/13661 "2021-04-28T19:30:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_Harshman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/john_harshman/32/1121_2.png) [@John\_Harshman](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/John_Harshman)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 4:04am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/is-it-deceptive-to-say-the-gae-is-consistent-with-evolution/13661/87 "2021-05-02T04:04:29Z")

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> [@Jordan](#):
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> If I were descended from a _de novo_ created human who interbred with the rest of the human population and whose genetic material is not found in my genome (very likely if they lived more than a few thousand years ago) and you were descended solely through common ancestry … we would _both_ look like we had descended from LUCA.

You both _would_ descend from LUCA. It’s just that you would have a second line of descent. Anyway, even if you had tons of Adam & Eve’s DNA, through some statistical fluke, there would be no way to determine that as long as their genomes weren’t bizarrely distinct from normal human variation. GAE is untestable, right?

Still, that doesn’t mean that de novo creation of organisms is consistent with biological science. It’s consistent (in the minimalist meaning) with the genetic data, but there’s a lot more to biology than genomic sequences.

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**Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 11:05am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/is-it-deceptive-to-say-the-gae-is-consistent-with-evolution/13661/88 "2021-05-02T11:05:25Z")

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