Christian scholars such as A. J. Monty White, Edwin M. Yamauchi and Reijer Hooykaas have been critical of inconsistent, exclusive uniformitarian views. Catastrophism is considered the reliable pre-supposition. A. J. Monty White and others, criticise the exploitation of dating methods (e.g. radiometric techniques) that project 'soulish' man's origin beyond a genealogical estimate for Adam's formation, and the early biblical civilisation. Recognising that Genesis 1 to 3 'moves on a plane that transcends [...] mundane evaluation,' Emil Kraeling contended that a reasonable locus of any archaeological debate over the correlation between the well-attested, settled history of mankind and the story of Genesis ought to be 'from the moment [...] Adam is commanded to till the earth' and the settled, cultivated living of Cain and Abel. The use of DNA sequencing to conjecture 'molecular clocks' and phylogenetic trees, has been critically challenged, and the incredulity of belief in the statistical cosmic improbability of speciation is insisted by some biblical creationists. Notable Pauline exponents have interpreted the apostle Paul as prescribing a historical Adam, and Christian commentators and genealogists of the Book of Genesis have contended that Adam and immediate posterity, are not intimated as being from the proposed high antiquity of modern thinkers.
