“Transmission at generation”: Could original sin have happened at the time when Homo sapiens already had a large population size?
Keywords
Human evolution, God’s intervention, First human persons, Adam and Eve, moral responsibility, original sin, “Relational damage”, “Transmission at generation”, atonement, Romans 11, 32, Darwinian principles, “monogenism”, “polygenism”Abstract
Models have been proposed assuming that God created the first human persons at the time when Homo sapiens already had a large population size; this hypothesis agrees with emerging data of evolutionary genetics. The present article argues that in such a historical context the propagation of original sin can be explained through “transmission at generation”, in accord with Romans 11:32, and the “Decree concerning original sin of the Council of Trent”.
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