[ClearCase_guy]

Creationist view: Noah built an ark, helps animals survive The Flood. After the flood, the animals from the ark re-populate the Earth.

Scientist view: That is such poppycock! Such nonsense! Now, see, what happened was, there was this one horse, see, and it reproduced, and then the Earth eventually had lots and lots of horses. Now, THAT'S science! Totally different from that fairy tale stuff!

[JerseyanExile]

Technically, what the linked study says is that all modern horses are descendants of one horse, not that they are descended solely from that one horse. That is a pretty significant distinction.

[JerseyanExile]

Technically, what the linked study says is that all modern horses are descendants of one horse, not that they are descended solely from that one horse. That is a pretty significant distinction.

[preacher]

From:
http://www.answers.com/topic/the-real-eve-film#ixzz1tTzBHNz7

The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can be traced to a common ancestor. The mitochondrial DNA of one prehistoric woman, who lived in Africa, has according to this theory been passed down from generation to generation over a span of 150,000 years, supplying the "chemical energy" to all humankind. The film was assembled by Oxford-based tropical pediatrician Stephen Oppenheimer, author of The Peopling of the World; he appears on camera along with Dr. Nina Jablonski of the California Academy of Science. A coproduction of Britain's Granada Television and America's Discovery Channel, The Real Eve made its first U.S. cable appearance on April 21, 2002. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

[SunkenCiv]

The mtDNA references back to the earliest female ancestor (more accurately, the earliest one with surviving offspring).