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Batchelor seeks to confirm and reconcile Qur’anic accounts of Adam and Eve’s origin with paleolithic and embryological claims, often drawing on Muslim sources. Wiegrebe argues that while several points are reasonable, some fail to match commonscientific understandings. The response compares Batchelor’s arguments against these assumptions without engaging his theological framework, and follows Batchelor’s subheadings to align rebuttal points with his results.","Theology and Science  \nISSN: 1474-6700 (Print) 1474-6719 (Online) Journal homepage: [https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rtas20](https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rtas20)  \nAdam and Eve’s Origin According to Islam: A Response to Daud Abdul-Fattah Batchelor  \nWolfgang Wiegrebe  \nTo cite this article: Wolfgang Wiegrebe (2019): Adam and Eve’s Origin According to Islam: A Response to Daud Abdul-Fattah Batchelor, Theology and Science, DOI:  \n10. 1080/14746700 .2019.1670946  \nTo link to this article: [https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2019.1670946](https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2019.1670946)  \n Published online: 22 Oct 2019.  \n\n|  Submit your article to this journal  |\n| --- |\n|  Article views: 4 |\n|  View related articles  |\n|  View Crossmark data |\n\nFull Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at [https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rtas20](https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rtas20)  \nTHEOLOGY AND SCIENCE  \n[https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2019.1670946](https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2019.1670946)  \nAdam and Eve’s Origin According to Islam: A Response to Daud Abdul-Fattah Batchelor  \nWolfgang Wiegrebe  \nABSTRACT  \nDue to his Muslim belief, D.A.-F. Batchelor wants to confirm and harmonize the Qur’anic reports of the origin of Adam and Eve with paleolithic and embryological statements. Batchelor quite often cites Muslim references. Thereby he provides a view of embryology which in part does not correspond to commonscientific understanding. Some of his points and arguments are well taken, but not all of them. Thus I compare Batchelor’s position with these assumptions without delving into his theological considerations.—I would recommend to read my response parallel to Batchelor’s paper. In order compare my points  \nwith Batchelor’s results I follow his sub-headings, although there are some inevitable overlaps in our respective texts.  \nKEYWORDS  \nQu’ram verbatim / contemporary exegesis; contradiction to today’s science; divine spirit in evolution of mankind; Adam’s origin; Adam and Eve: monozygotic twins; creation in Paradise / earth; Y-chromosome Adam; mitochondrial Eve; Turner and Klinefelter syndromes  \nCan we successfully harmonize the Qu’ran’s testimony to human origins in the Adam and Eve story with what we are learning about human evolution from paleoanthropologistsand embryologists? Daud Abdul-Fattah Batchelor believes we can. I do not. In what follows I would like to show why.  \n1. Daud Abdul-Fattah Batchelor’s Method: One Truth in Two Books  \nIn Theology and Science, Daud Abdul-Fattah Batchelor, a Muslim scientist, publishes his“own personal analysis, which does not necessarily reflect the position of any institution … ” concerning Adam and Evès origin.1 The author states that “a Muslim scientist engaged in interaction between theology and science needs to remain completely faithful to the Holy Qur’an.” Therefore, he wants to understand “the historical and spiritual dimensions of Adam and Eve,” using archeological discoveries besides Qur’anic statements and results of Islamic scholars.  \nIn his introduction and conclusion Batchelor identifies his method with the classical Two Books, rejecting the Two Languages model for relating science and theology (see note 1) . In the introduction we find:  \nMuslim scientists are cognizant of the need to avoid what Ted Peters calls the two languages model, according to which a science and religious belief system remain independent of one another, speaking different languages. Further, what Joshua Moritz perceptively says resonates with Islamic thinking: “Assigning the domain of science and the domain of religion to non-overlapping magisteria is a philosophically unworkable, historically uninformed, and theologically unhelpful option.2  \n© 2019 Graduate Theological Union (CTNS Program)  \n2  W. 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