We Dodged Extinction

ABCNews ^ | Lee Dye

[Sabertooth]

[Sabertooth]

It could happen to you, too!

(((ping))))

[Valin]

Hey, how did you get you're picture on an ABC story? :-)

Running for cover.

[onyx]

I do not believe in evolution. End of story.

[Doctor Doom]

Fear not. I have nearly perfect my race of atomic supermen.

We will protect you sub-norms.

[Doctor Doom]

I do not believe in evolution.

It's okay. Evolution believes in you.

[One More Time]

Could Genesis offer the missing solution?

[Diddle E. Squat]

The most plausible explanation, he adds, is that at least once in our past, something caused the human population to drop drastically. When or how often that may have happened is anybody’s guess. Possible culprits include disease, environmental disaster and conflict.

Guess they never heard of Noah.

[GOPJ]

Nice find. Thanks.

[CheneyChick]

We will protect you sub-norms.

That's nice. :)

[Diddle E. Squat]

Nor Adam.

[John H K]

I do not believe in evolution. End of story.

Gee, brilliant, incisive argument there.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I could see an argument that would say that , yes the primates evolved but man was placed here by a creator ......!

[Buckeroo]

Looks like Bill Clinton.

[John H K]

Guess they never heard of Noah.

They have, of course, but the problem is there isn't a scrap or shred of evidence, or any logical mechanism, for a simultaneous world-wide flood.

Most likely candidate I've seen for the cause of the almost-extinction was the eruption of the Supervolcano Toba in Indonesia 70,000 years ago...the last Supervolcano to have erupted.

[Gladwin]

The human species is maybe 100,000 years old. The greater genetic variation in chimpanzees suggests that their species is much older. Perhaps they have been a stable species for 5 million years. Or, maybe humans are like cheetahs. Cheetahs have so little genetic variation that they suffered a population bottleneck sometime in the past.

[onyx]

Thank you! I'm so often correct, I sometimes forget to thank you little people.

[Sabertooth]

I do not believe in evolution. End of story.

You haven't considered all of the ramifications of the article I sent...

Genesis 7

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And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

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Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

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Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

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For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

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And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

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And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

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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.

We almost dodged extinction in that story too.

[realpatriot71]

Guess they never heard of Noah.

Well in the Flood story there were eight people left after the flood to populate the world, but only two chimps. I wonder how that would explain the chimps having more genetic diversity when they started with a smaller gene pool in the first place. The Noah story helps not a bit here . . . sorry.