All humans are descended from just TWO people and a catastrophic event almost wiped out ALL species

All humans are descended from just TWO people and a catastrophic event almost wiped out ALL species 100,000 years ago, scientists claim

Genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals from different species were surveyed
The research deduced that humans and animals sprang from single pair
This happened after a catastrophic event a long time after the last ice age

All modern humans descended from a solitary pair who lived 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, scientists say.

Scientists surveyed the genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals - including humans - from 100,000 different species and deduced that we sprang from a single pair of adults after a catastrophic event almost wiped out the human race.

These bar codes, or snippets of DNA that reside outside the nuclei of living cells, suggest that it's not just people who came from a single pair of beings, but nine out of every 10 animal species, too

Stoeckle and Thaler, the scientists who headed the study, concluded that ninety percent of all animal species alive today come from parents that all began giving birth at roughly the same time, less than 250 thousand years ago - throwing into doubt the patterns of human evolution.

RE: I read a book long ago that mentioned the same origin for mankind, and it even mentioned a global disaster that wiped out most of the life on earth.

The title and author would be very useful for us, thanks.

***Evolution isn’t assumed. It’s a fact.***

You can’t observe it (although Dawkins once made the statement: “Evolution has been observed, its just never been observed while its happening”.... a really inane statement)

You can’t test it, you can’t repeat it (because you can’t test it), you can’t falsify it.

Because of the above and because there is another alternative, creation that is viable, evolution is philosophical based on the premise that there is no creator.

To be fair, creation is not testable either. However, natural law points to creation quite dramatically.

There were 8 people in the Ark, 4 couples.

Genesis 7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

Noah's daughters-in-law were not descendants of Noah and his wife.

The only two people from whom all humans are descended can only be Adam and Eve.

When I was a student, we had to determine what elements were in laboratory test samples. You run a whole bunch of chemical test procedures. Some can be detected only very ephemerally- like a tiny tiny whisk of green in a flame, almost imperceptible. Basically, you had no choice but to keep running — repeating the testing - over and over again — and finally your sample was all burnt up so you just had to guess. It’s always seemed like maybe the good Lord is just trying over and over again with us —to craft an acceptable , correct result ?

RE; I was thinking more of Mr. and Mrs. Noah.

There were 8 people in the Ark, 4 couples.

Noah and his sons and wives came from Adam and Eve.

The Genesis story of creation may turn out to be more accurate than the “educated” eggheads want to admit. The timelines are different but the events seem to be following a biblical pattern. Intelligent design is far more logical than the theory of evolution. The odds on the evolution theory take more faith to believe than a creationist I would think.

Want to really watch heads explode, just for fun suggest it was aliens who created the catastrophic event to correct deviations in their experiment.

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