[staytrue]

In mammals, mitochondiral rna mutates at a fairly fixed rate. The number of mutations is sort of like a ticking clock. Count the mutations and you have a very good time line. PS. Modern science does not preclude a god or even a christian god. Besides, the bible is simply man's imperfect translation of whatever was originally said. You can use it as a guide, but it may be an imperfect translation. Don't let creationist BS blind you to facts.

[Ahban]

OK, I will avoid creationist AND evolutionist BS. If they used 'mitochondiral rna' as their test, as you claim, it is not stated anywhere in the post. So even if 'mitochondiral rna' does have a fixed mutation rate in mammals, it may not be relavent to this study.

Furthermore, I have seen lots of studies done on more than one type of genetic material where they play tricks with the numbers in order to get the answer they want. I remember two studies that assumed the breeding population of human males to be 7,500 or less until 2000 B.C.. That is absurdly low, unless you are a YEC. We have excavations of single cities from that era that could hold that many men.

I want to know if they used that kind of fudge factor with the 50,000 year figure.

[tallhappy]

In mammals, mitochondiral rna mutates at a fairly fixed rate.

How come you guys who hate and are obsessed with creationists never know anything about biology? It's a weird dynamic.

You are referring to the mitochondrial DNA, not RNA (and it should be capitalized).