The Flynn-Kemp Proposal

William M. Briggs on the idea that “God picked two… proto-man beings, named Adam and Eve, and imbued into them rational souls” [and t]heir offspring, or perhaps even they themselves, bred with the other human-like creatures, at least to some extent” — Reconciling Mike Flynn & Fr Ripperger On Evolution: Creation or Completion of New Essences?

Linked to is Edward Feser summarizing that “the claim that modern humans are descended from an original pair does not entail that they received all their genes from that pair alone” — Knowing an ape from Adam.

Mike Flynn himself (a.k.a. TheOFloin) wrote 12 years ago that “Genesis tells us that the children of Adam and Eve found mates among ‘the children of men,’ which would indicate that there were a number of others creatures out there with whom they could mate… [s]o even a literal reading of Genesis supports multiple ancestors, over and above a single common ancestor” — Adam and Eve and Ted and Alice.

Kenneth Kemp hashed the idea out in a American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly paper — Science, Theology, and Monogenesis.