Biblical Genetics

The two types of natural selection, and why each fails

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Natural selection comes in two forms, positive and negative. Positive selection is supposed to improve species, but Dr Rob gives a clear example where...

What is Genetic Drift?

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scientist throw around words and phrases that are sometimes hard to understand. This is not one of them. Genetic drift is an easy concept. Dr Rob brin...

When did Eve live?

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One woman is the ancestress of all living people. They call her Eve. Is she the Eve of the Bible? How long ago did she live? Join Dr Carter as he expl...

The Dark Proteome

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Even though it was completed a quarter century ago, geneticists still struggle to estimate the number of genes in the human genome. They went from ‘...

Dedicated anti-creationist makes huge blunder

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a recent presentation on human-chimp similarities to LOGOS Research Associates, I made the (correct) claim that most new mutations are lost. An opp...

Your favorite cheese might be facing extinction

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a recent Creation magazine article, I talked about an interesting new case study done on one of the world's most favorite cheeses, Brie, and its re...

Mendel’s Law of Exponential Trait Combination

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gregor Mendel was the father of modern genetics. He wrote his most important papers on the topic just a few years after Darwin published the Origin of...

Seabird shennanigans

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Carter spent some time recently in New Zealand. While there, he stopped by a giant colony of gannets. These sea birds number in the millions but th...

Placing Noah’s sons on the Y chromosome tree

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is only natural for people to want to compare the Table of Nations (Genesis 10) to geography, linguistics, ancient history, and/or patterns in huma...

DNA from the last woolly mammoths supports the Bible

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The woolly mammoth is strongly associated with the Ice Age, but they survived until surprisingly recent times in the far north. Recently, the genomes ...

Natural selection has little power in the real world

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Lynch and colleagues published a paper that is devastating to thousands of past studies on natural selection. By sequencing DNA from multiple nat...

Can creationists explain Neanderthals?

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Neanderthals got their name from a valley that was, in turn, named after a beloved pastor and hymnwriter named Joachim Neander. Thus, since their firs...

Biblical contradiction solved! Explaining the Jesus genealogies

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are two conflicting genealogies of Jesus in the New Testament. Anyone can see that the name lists in Matthew 1 and Luke 3 are not at all similar...

A deep dive into the nation of Edom

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this, the 7th episode in our series on biblical genealogy, Dr Rob takes us deep into the genealogy of the nation of Edom. This was a people/tribe/k...

An Introduction to Esau

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Video Link: https://youtu.be/OTj_P8P1v6Q   In this, the 6th episode on biblical genealogy, Dr Rob explains where the nation of Edom came...

The Nations Surrounding Israel

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this, the 5th episode in our series on biblical genealogy, Dr Rob explains the origins of the nations that surrounded (and still surround) Israel. ...

Working through challenging genealogical details

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this fourth installment in a series on biblical genealogy, Dr Rob works through three challenging details that must be overcome if one is to use th...

What is a chronogenealogy?

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this third installment in our series on biblical genealogy, Dr Rob explains why the data in Genesis 5 and 11 are so important. These are not just l...

Getting started with Biblical Genealogy

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this second installment on biblical genealogy, Dr Rob explains why all those names (or at least most of them) in the Bible are so important. This s...

Ancestor vs descendant trees

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first in a multi-part series on biblical genealogies. To understand what we are dealing with, we first need to know that there are two com...

What is the longest match between the human and chimpanzee genomes?

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Human-chimpanzee similarity is a hotly-debated topic in the evolution-creation wars. Are we 98, 95, 90, or 85% similar? One way to get at the question...

Junk or genius? How functional is the human genome? Part 2

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

https://youtu.be/-jpoxCZgZKQ Is the human genome highly functional or mostly junk? This is a question that is not only being asked in the creat...

DNA – highly functional or mostly junk? Part 1

03 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is the human genome highly functional or mostly junk? This is a question that is not only being asked in the creation-evolution debate; it is a questi...

The Incredible Shrinking Human Genome

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

No, the size of the genome has not changed, but the number of genes we thought it contains certainly has. After lots of double checking, there are few...

James 3 vs the anticreationists

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A slew of videos has recently come out arguing for and against the work of Dr Jeffrey Tomkins, who claims humans and chimps are only about 85% similar...

Recombine-o-mania

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chromosomal recombination is an essential part of the life cycle of all sexually reproducing organisms. Yet, the system is complex, involving hundreds...

Let’s talk about ancient DNA

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

My new video made quite a splash! Apparently, lots of Christians are asking questions about the DNA we can now pull from very old skeletons. How do th...

African cichlids – ‘fast species’ are very, very biblical

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

African cichlids are a diverse group of fishes that have frequently been used as evidence for evolution. Yet, now that the genomes of several hundred ...

Darwin’s Finches: the little birds that destroy evolution

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Darwin's finches have long been considered an icon of evolution. A recent analysis included 40 years of morphological measurements and genealogy traci...

Evolutionists predict super bottleneck (it would have killed us)

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A new paper claims that the pre-human population went through an extremely small and extremely long population bottleneck. Starting about one million ...

Human vs Chimp Part 3: a deep dive into how statistics are being misused

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The opponents of biblical creation have made some glaring errors in their criticisms of prior work on human-chimpanzee genetic differences. Specifical...

Human vs Chimp part 2

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second installment in a now multi-part series on human and chimpanzee genetic differences. I had a lot of pushback from my last episode, i...

Human vs Chimp: an honest evaluation of our genetic differences

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Several anti-creationists have made a hobby out of attacking creationists. Their best efforts, however, have generally failed. For example, see: ...

Eschatological Genetics

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rob outlines three aspects of genetics that tell us that, scientifically, the human species is doomed to eventual extinction. These include the rat...

Fisher’s failure and the dramatic end of neo-Darwinism

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rob discusses a fundamental aspect of neo-Darwinism (Fisher's Theorem of Natural Selection) and how it fails mathematically. First postulated in 19...

Geeking out about DNA damage repair

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rob waxes eloquent about some amazing new revelations involving DNA damage repair systems. Researchers recently turned AI onto the human genome, pr...

Why you can’t trace your family tree to Adam and Eve

13 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Everybody loves genealogy, but we are severely limited in what we can know about our family histories. There are two main reasons for this. First, fam...

It’s an RNA world after all

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Notes and links: Genetic Entropy, by John Sanford Keffer oak RNA: the epicenter of genetic information, by John Mattick and Paulo Amaral (r...

Bacteria deceived us! Life is not simple

04 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Science advances in fits and starts, and it sometimes takes a detour onto a dead-end road. Bacteria represent one of those roads. Studying bacteria ga...

How I made fluorescent fish (a Christian response to genetic engineering)

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Genetic engineering is a controversial topic. From vaccines to fetal cells to transhumanism, the debate rages. Yet, there are certain aspects to genet...

Scopes, 100 years later: the lingering effects of the famous “monkey trial”

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We are approaching the 100th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey Trial". Dr Rob was in the neighborhood, so he stopped by the Rhea County Courthouse in ...

Can creationists make any real predictions? Or are they just preaching to the choir?

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Given the biblical accounts of Creation and the Flood, can we draw any conclusions about what we would expect in genetics? That depends on status of t...

Sexual Recombination, complex genetics, and challenges to the Out-of-Africa theory

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Notes, links, and things to think about: Hinch et al. 2011. The landscape of recombination in African Americans. Nature 476:170–177, 2011. E...

Things I no longer believe

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rob spills the beans about several things he no longer believes, including Darwinian evolution, the simplicity of bacteria, Linnean taxonomy, and t...

Where are the skeletons of all the REALLY old people? Archaeology vs the Bible.

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There is scant evidence for very old people in the archaeological record, but the Bible claims people once lived for centuries. Is this a major contra...

Genealogy vs Phylogeny: The War Continues

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mutations are known to occur at much higher rates than can be accounted for in evolutionary theory. Given measurable rates, Y Chromosome Adam and Mito...

How the butterfly got its stripes

20 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The genetics of the humble butterfly tells us a lot about the creation-evolution debate, the definition of 'species', the definition of 'junk DNA', an...

Why Egyptians are not ‘Black’

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Egyptian culture is thousands of years old, yet they never maintained perfect isolation from the nations among whom they lived. They have been conquer...

DNA of the Ancient Pharaohs

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rob describes the horrible levels of inbreeding within the ancient Egyptian royal family and how this affected them over time. This includes the pr...

How did they build the pyramids so soon after Noah’s Flood?

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rob travels to Egypt to answer some difficult questions about the biblical timeline, population growth, the people of Egypt, and how, on earth, the...

Fighting among the creationists?

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rob talks about how divisions and disagreements are not only necessary but also productive for scientific progress. Thus, when you see two scientis...

There is no Y Chromosome Clock

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The 'molecular clock hypothesis' is critical for evolutionary theory. If it fails, many evolutionary speculations will fall as well. Yet, there is abu...

Evolution’s Wobbly Foundation

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

During the process of protein translation, the cell matches three letters in DNA for each amino acid. But there are 4 x 4 x 4 = 64 possible 3-letter c...

Adam and Eve did not live 200,000 years ago

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rob explains an issue in the creation vs. evolution debate: how fast mutations accumulate. The rate we can measure in families (the 'genealogical' ...

Creation Research Society Summer Meeting 2022

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rob is at Liberty University for the annual summer conference of the Creation Research Society. He shares the highlights and an encouraging message...

Did we evolve from 10,000 people in Africa?

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The oft-heard claim is that Homo sapiens evolved from Homo erectus within a small African population with an effective size of about 10,000 individual...

Seven reasons to believe that Adam was real

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This presentation was produced for a conference at the Scandinavian School of Theology in Uppsala, Sweden. I was speaking as a representative of Creat...

Old fathers are genetic poison

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The idea that old men contribute more mutations to their children than young men is not controversial. The application of this thought to people who l...

Apples are the perfect fruit…for discussing how things were designed to change

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The apple gives us several excellent illustrations for understanding biblical genetics. The genetics of the apple tree is super complicated, yet alway...

The Genetics of Modern Jews

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

0 "Who is a Jew?" and "Are the Jews genetically distinct?" are important and interesting questions. We have a biblical record of where they...

Early Israel was a Hotbed of Interracial Dating

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The biblical story details a surprising number of marriages between Israelite and non-Israelite people. This leads to questions about what is a "Jew",...

How long were the Israelites in Egypt?

21 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There are many question that revolve around the Israelites time in Egypt. One of these deals with how long they were there. The Bible gives conflicti...

The Jews, inbreeding, and false notions of ‘race’

21 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The origin of the Jewish nation is a fascinating question that is addressed in the Bible, archaeology, and genetics. In this episode, Dr Rob examines ...

The Barrier has been breached: new discoveries are challenging neo-Darwinism

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rob reveals several new studies that are challenging the fundamental assumptions that underlie the neo-Darwinian synthesis. Specifically. the 'cent...

Is Covid-19 Evolving? No, but it sure is mutating fast!

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

People are constantly asking me, "Is Covid-19 evolving?" So I went ahead and recorded my answer. In short, no, there is nothing to suggest that it is ...

The Amazing Braided Baramin Concept is Intrinsic to Creation

25 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rob wraps up his 4-part series Species Were Designed to change by introducing a fascinating, profound, game-changing idea: the 'Braided Baramin Con...

Classifying the Created Kinds Leads to Fascinating Results

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the third installment in my Species Were Designed to Change series. Here, I take the concept of a baramin (a "created kind") and unpack it so ...

Speciation and the Limits of Change

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Location: Orphan Brigade Battlefield Park, Dallas, GA Notes and links: Species were designed to change, part 1: But how much change is allowed...

God Deliberately Engineered Life to Change, but How Much Change is Allowed?

07 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rob puts the smackdown on a tired old meme: the claim that the Bible teaches that God created all species just they appear today. In so doing, he o...

The Waiting Time Problem

08 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Location: Champ's Clock Shop, Douglasville, GA Dr Rob describes a contentious idea: the Waiting Time Problem. Mathematical simulations tells us tha...

Ending Fetal Tissue Research Using Politics and the Potential Loss of Privacy

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Location: Creation Research Society HQ at Arizona Christian University Links and notes: Creation Research Society membership page Common Ru...

The Troubling Ethics of Fetal Tissue Research

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Morality is not always an easy thing to deal with, and the moral implications of using cell lines from aborted babies is one of the more difficult sub...

The Early Years of Fetal Tissue Research Were Extremely Disturbing

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Are you pro-life? Then this video is a must-watch for you. Are you pro-abortion? Then consider this application of the Christian worldview to a very d...

Fetal Tissue Research is Leading Straight Toward Human Cloning

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The use of fetal cells in modern medicine and technology is an obscure field. Yet, there are profound moral, theological, and societal issues inherent...

Mutations are not as random as you think

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The idea that mutations are random is an important concept for evolutionary theory. Yet, multiple areas of research are telling us that mutation place...

Was Africa the cradle of humanity?

09 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The idea that Africa was where humans originated has been drilled into our heads for decades, but cracks are beginning to appear, and they are being p...

Genetic diversity on the Ark

31 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Should there be a genetic difference between clean and unclean animals after the Flood? The answer will surprise you! Can you trace modern humans back...

Genetic Entropy vs Simple Organisms. Was Darwin right?

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Genetic entropy is controversial. Creationists say it is real. Evolutionists say it is poppycock. But the theory was developed with long-lived, multic...

RNA Vaccines Pros and Cons

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rob does his best to explain how the new Covid-19 vaccines work, how they're made, and the pros and cons (mostly pro) of the new technology. Loc...

The Improbable DNA Corkscrew

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Location: Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary and CREW Bird Rookery Swamp Trail, near Estero, Florida, USA We can only understand the size of DNA by comparin...

The fragility of DNA is the bane of Darwinism

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

DNA can only withstand so much mutation and breakage before it breaks down. An amazing system of repair enzymes keeps decay in check, mostly. Yet, wit...

ATP Drives Its Own Creation: the spaghettification of irreducible complexity

10 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Notes and links: Journal of Creation subscription page The ATP synthase motor The 'one gene–one enzyme' hypothesis, Beadle and Tatum, 194...

Modern Humans from Adam and Eve? You Bet!

20 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The idea is that all humans came from a first couple. Many people don't think this is possible, but Dr C demolishes one common argument against Adam a...

Origin of Life Smackdown

06 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Origin-of-life research got a boost with the recent publication of a massive new computer program that was designed to model early chemical evolution....

Epigenetics vs Darwin

22 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Epigenetics deals with those things that control which genes are turned on and off, and at what time, in the cell. It is a serious challenge to the ne...

Natural Selection in Paradise

15 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Natural selection is a controversial topic both among creationists and evolutionists and within creationism. No, it is not 'proof' of evolution, and y...

How COVID-19 Testing Works

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There are three different COVID-19 tests in use today, with several variations of each on the market. What, exactly, do they do? How accurate are they...

Angelic DNA! Wait, what?

12 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There is a mysterious passage in Genesis chapter 6 about the "sons of God" having children with the "daughters of men". Scholars argue about what this...

Pandemics vs Entropy

05 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Pandemic viruses are deadly, but over time they should weaken as they pick up mutations. Will this happen with the pandemic coronavirus? We can only h...

The octopus is from Mars, and other stories

21 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There are certain things in genetics that are truly shocking. Complexity (in this case, of the octopus genome), hybridization between species that are...

Privacy is dead!

15 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Privacy is dead. It never existed online, but even more importantly modern genetics has destroyed any sense of privacy. With millions of people in onl...

Patriarchal Drive

08 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Patriarchal Drive is a strange phrase with profound implications. Simply put, very old people having children in a population adds many extra mutation...

Jacob’s Livestock Breeding Experiment

01 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr C delves into a difficult passage that deals with some improbable breeding experiments done by the Patriarch Jacob in Genesis 30 and 31. Some claim...

Racial tension, part 2: What is a race?

23 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There are massive racial tensions being expressed in the US and around the world today. While I cannot fix centuries of injustice and oppression in a ...

Racial tension, part 1: a summary of the genetics and theology of ‘race’

19 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There are massive racial tensions being expressed in the US and around the world today. While I cannot fix centuries of injustice and oppression in a ...

Nature vs God?

10 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We all struggle to explain where everything came from. The science of naturalism is the main approach used today, but naturalism, even though it is a ...

Evolutionary Bottlenecks are Disastrous

02 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr C revisits the idea of a genetic "bottleneck" and explains why the 'out of Africa' bottleneck would have been a disaster for our species. Locati...

Biblical Bottlenecks are not Bad

27 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

First, there was inherently no mutation load at Creation, so there would be no problem with Adam and Eve's children intermarrying. Ditto the grandchil...

“Trust me. I’m a scientist.”

19 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

https://biblicalgenetics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Trust-me-im-a-scientist-Biblical-Genetics-episode-16.mp3 Location: Saguaro National Park, n...

Genetic Engineering of Humans

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What's your response going to be the first time you hear that a human has been cloned?  How are you going to react the first you hear that a baby has...