# Purpose Nation: Fazale Rana (RTB) on Genealogical Adam

**URL:** https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/purpose-nation-fazale-rana-rtb-on-genealogical-adam/1709
**Category:** Peaceful Science
**Tags:** Adam, Theology
**Created:** [September 19, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/purpose-nation-fazale-rana-rtb-on-genealogical-adam/1709 "2018-09-19T02:02:24Z")
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#### Post date: [September 19, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/purpose-nation-fazale-rana-rtb-on-genealogical-adam/1709/4 "2018-09-19T23:48:15Z")

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@swamidass , please correct me if I’m wrong. You say, “With all due respect, coalescence does not imply a bottleneck.” Ok. Great. But, isn’t it true that if there was a genetic bottleneck you would also observe data that points to a coalescent signal? The two are not in contradiction to each other.

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