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To: allmendream
DNA can be used for “racial” classification, but only as a % chance. In other words, you count up the markers most associated with different human populations and you can get an estimate that the person whose DNA you found is, lets say, 80% likely to be of Asian descent.

And by definition of the many races found to exist right on this very day upon this earth means simply they could not have all come from only two flesh beings? Correct?

53 posted on 02/18/2009 9:34:40 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts
The genetic diversity of the human race and our suitability of each population for the selective pressures of their native environment speak to the ability of humans to evolve new genetic variations.

A Creationist poster suggested there was no evolution, just “devolution”, or loss of genetic variation or genetic information. That is ridiculous as the maximum genetic variability of “only two flesh beings” is FOUR at any genetic loci. Obviously human genetic variation came from somewhere, and that variation is not degenerative, but adaptive.

54 posted on 02/18/2009 9:45:21 AM PST by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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