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To: Blood of Tyrants; Red Badger

I see. Good points!

There is absolutely nothing in genetic research to even remotely suggest even the most infinitesimal possibility of one-family bottleneck in human genetics within the timeframe that the mythical Noah and Adam would've lived.


35 posted on 01/17/2006 9:30:28 AM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv
"There is absolutely nothing in genetic research to even remotely suggest even the most infinitesimal possibility of one-family bottleneck in human genetics within the timeframe that the mythical Noah and Adam would've lived."

The Bible does not describe a bottleneck, some man invented it.
43 posted on 01/17/2006 9:34:52 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: AntiGuv

Abraham had eight named sons in the Old Testament. Many were never named, but were implied, by his concubines. He, being the Father of all Jews, Levites, Benjaminites, Arabs, Edomites, Midianites, and the Lost tribes of Israel, his genetic material, ie DNA, must be spread all over the planet......


46 posted on 01/17/2006 9:35:43 AM PST by Red Badger (And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him)
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To: AntiGuv

Timeframe issues aside (which are huge, admittedly), there were plenty of 1-heatbeat genetic bottlenecks.

Google:

"Y-chromosome Adam"
"mitochondrial Eve"

Basically, all humans share at least one, and probably more than one, male and femal ancestor.

Of course, they can't say --- with any certainty --- that the given, proven "adam" (a real misnomer) and "eve" (same) lived at remotely the same time.

That said, obviously each of the bottlenecks had parents, who could presumably qualify.

And yes, I am greatly over-simplifying for brevity.

And no, I am not saying that this is proof of Genesis.

Just that the science and the Bible are not inconsistent, which is something both sides of such debates often forget.


51 posted on 01/17/2006 9:42:40 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: AntiGuv

That is why it is called "faith".


58 posted on 01/17/2006 9:50:30 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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