Maybe I’m completely mistaken on all of this, but going off of what I recall reading in this blog post the following:
Therefore, there is no evidence against (or for) the de novo creation of Adam and Eve , because any evidence of a single de novo creation event would have been erased. Most our ancestors are genetic ghosts , and there is no way to identify Adamic genetic material even if it was passed to us. The Deceitful God objection (against Apparent Age) does not apply because the story we read from genomes is not false; it is the real history of those “outside the garden.”
My point is just simply with any special creation of any species they necessarily would contain some of the genetic past of the populations they are about to start interbreeding with. Some obvious examples could be:
- Syncytin ERVs and the placenta, which Eve probably would have had presuming she had a placenta: Implication of Human Endogenous Retrovirus Envelope Proteins in Placental Functions - PMC. If she utilized such a mechanism then she necessarily had a false history implanted in her of shared ancestry.
- Any other shared ERVs, Alu sequences, etc. Would Adam and Eve had any of these in their genomes?- Alu elements as regulators of gene expression - PMC. Or might they have a weakened immune response without tens of millions of years worth of ERV insertions in the germline and subsequent fixation that aids in fighting off future ERVs: Endogenous Retroviruses: With Us and against Us - PMC. If so, again a false history.
- Pseudogenes? Did Adam and Eve contain for example three pseudogenes for digesting chitinase, with shared deactivating mutations with closely related primates? http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/5/eaar6478.full. Maybe they didn’t have any of these pseudogenes or the other many thousands which would escape the DGO.
- Even just their special creation among others they were identical to in virtually every way genetically, ability wise, etc. except maybe a special call of God would fit the DGO.
- And while its nice that Adam and Eve can be one of the many couples alive at the time that are the ancestors of all of us alive today, such a solution is not even great theologically as there would have necessarily been many generations until at least several thousand years later where specifically the specially created Adam and Eve would have been genealogically related to everyone.
Sure, one can have a special creation that leaves no evidence among a bigger population. The geneological idea I think is cool but for some of the reasons listed here I bring up the DGO as well.