A theologically informed evaluation of claims that genetic analyses show that Adam could not have existed. Simple popular summaries about genetic similarities between humans and chimpanzees have alternative explanations, compatible with a supernatural origin for Adam and Eve.

Statistical studies of DNA differences in the human population and differences between humans and primates have given fi gures of 5,000 or more as the minimal population size for human ancestry but these technical studies use mathematical models that already exclude the possibility of a unique, miraculous origin for Adam and Eve.