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Christian Professor Claims Genetics Disproves Historical Adam
Institute for Creation Research ^ | 8-26-11 | Brian Thomas

Posted on 08/27/2011 10:07:19 AM PDT by fishtank

National Public Radio recently interviewed Trinity Western University biologist Dennis Venema, who stated his belief that humans did not descend from Adam and Eve.1 Venema, an evangelical evolutionist, claimed that genetics studies show "there is no way we can be traced back to a single couple."2 Do the data really contradict the biblical account of human history?

"Given the genetic variation of people today, [Venema] says scientists can't get that [starting] population size below 10,000 people at any time in our evolutionary history," NPR reported.2 But this claim fails for three reasons. First, it relies on the presumption of "evolutionary history," not scientific data. Second, the idea that an initial group of 10,000 humans evolved from primates is mathematically impossible. Third, a descent from Adam and Eve actually does explain the patterns in modern human genetics....

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KEYWORDS: adamandeve; ancestors; ancestry; belongsinreligion; creation; dennisvenema; eden; evolution; familytree; gagdadbob; gardenofeden; genealogy; genetics; genome; helixmakemineadouble; mitochondrialeve; mtdna; notanewstopic; onecosmosblog; trinitywesternu
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To: katana
Finger webs? Everybody gets those first. The bones show up inside the meat. Then, as muscles are defined one of the last acts is to cut away the webs between the fingers.

All of us get that ~ dogs, cats, people, monkeys.

Fish don't!

41 posted on 08/27/2011 11:06:36 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: steveshoveler

I agree, revelation suggests rather strongly that Adam and Eve were historical individuals.

Not sure when we can place them within the archaeological and paleontological record, but it’s best when we are not sure of something to simply admit we’re not sure and keep trying to find out, rather than forcing bad conclusions in either the science or theology.


42 posted on 08/27/2011 11:10:01 AM PDT by Claud
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To: ZULU; Perdogg; PeteB570; Claud; muawiyah; babygene; Scotsman will be Free; Lady Jag; zbogwan2; ...
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43 posted on 08/27/2011 11:10:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: ZULU
I believe in the Biblical Story of Creation AND I believe in Evolution. They are NOT mutually exclusive (Smiling as I toss a grenade!)

Evem some top religious figure say there is room for both, if you are willing to believe in Creationism for the starting line. I know ther is proof-positive for mutations, but they are almost exclusively fatal changes. Then there is breeding bad traits out for survival (or because the bad traits died out) like monkeys having almost no neck - a longer neck tends to break easier when young ones fall out of trees.

While ther is must evidence that seems to point at evolution, it cannot be proved (as of today anyway) any more than Creationism can be disproved.

Here's your grenade back - it looks like you forgot to pull the pin - although there are sure to be some who will pull it themselves...

44 posted on 08/27/2011 11:11:18 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: Lady Jag
Smiley - Popcorn
45 posted on 08/27/2011 11:13:16 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Lady Jag; SunkenCiv

46 posted on 08/27/2011 11:14:40 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: ZULU

Some of modern humans are dead-ends also

:-)


47 posted on 08/27/2011 11:17:58 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: FromTheSidelines

Evolution says you are an accident with no purpose.

Religion says just the opposite.

Evolution has never been proven, but religion keeps getting proven based on our studies of the universe.


48 posted on 08/27/2011 11:20:25 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: ZULU
"I believe in the Biblical Story of Creation AND I believe in Evolution. They are NOT mutually exclusive (Smiling as I toss a grenade!)"

Kinda like the old Dixiecrat bumper-sticker.

"I love God, I own a gun, I vote Democrat."

Always wanted to add, "I are stupid"...

49 posted on 08/27/2011 11:20:41 AM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: ZULU

What evolutionary processes where? I have never seen the theory of evolution ever proven. As of today it is still a theory.


50 posted on 08/27/2011 11:21:57 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: UCANSEE2

The theory of evolution has never been proven. Would you care to?


51 posted on 08/27/2011 11:23:59 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: trebb

The one problem with creation AND evolution is that in order for evolution to work, multiple generations of whatever species would be involved.

Any Christian who knows his or her Bible knows that death entered into the world through ADAMS sin. Before Adam, there was no death; making evolution impossible.


52 posted on 08/27/2011 11:26:02 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: SunkenCiv

53 posted on 08/27/2011 11:27:24 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Keep the 'ICk" in Democratic)
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To: fishtank
Mathematics is a set in concrete science and cannot be twisted to fit agendas. It is what is is. EAch of have the same number of ancestors.

Mathematically, once you get your ancestors lined up, going back so many generations (I forget the number but it isn't that many - we are ALL, every man, woman and child on earth, genetically related.

If you have your genealogy traced back far enough, you will see that it's shaped in a diamond pattern, starting with you at the bottom and building up with your 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great greats - etc. After some generations, you will start finding the same sets of great great 12-plus generations back, turning up in the generation more than once.

For example, I have 5 lines going back the Gov. Wm. Bradford of the Mayflower. He is my 7th great grandfather, 10 generations from me. In that generation, we all have thousands of great great couples. (Took a lot of people to make you!)

AS the marriages in the same areas come down through the lines, you will find people from the same lines marrying - cousins many generations removed - but leading back to a common ancestor.

The further back you go, the more the duplication as the numbers of separate couple begin to fold the actual numbers of separate couples back - until you reach to top of the diamond shape with ONE person sitting there.

So what does that say?

54 posted on 08/27/2011 11:29:13 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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To: fishtank
America's first unequivocal claim - the founders' statement of the natural law and the raison d'etre of human government - upon which our federal republic, our Constitution, our laws, and our claim to liberty, are built:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident (ie as plain as the nose on your face), that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."

55 posted on 08/27/2011 11:31:09 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (At best, all the Republicans are willing to give the Federal Behemoth is a slight haircut.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Let's see, the elephant evolved from the mammoth.
check
the horse evolved from the eohippus (however it's spelled)
check
Humans evolved from apes
check. OH WAIT. Then why are there still apes?
56 posted on 08/27/2011 11:35:31 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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To: maine-iac7

And the coelacanth evolved into a....? Oh, it didn’t. Even after 400 million years it is still a coelacanth.


57 posted on 08/27/2011 11:37:38 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: maine-iac7
OH WAIT. Then why are there still apes?

Because there's still ape habitat that people don't want.

And incidentally, humans didn't evolve from apes: humans, apes, chimps, gibbons and gorillas all evolved from some common ancestor who, like the mammoth and eohippus, is no longer with us.

58 posted on 08/27/2011 11:49:59 AM PDT by Grut
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Evolution says you are an accident with no purpose.

Really? I'd be interested in seeing that as part of the theory of evolution.

Religion says just the opposite.

Really? All religions say that?

Evolution has never been proven, but religion keeps getting proven based on our studies of the universe.

When did we prove that the world sprang forth from a three-headed god that came from a lotus flower growing in the navel of another god?

59 posted on 08/27/2011 11:58:07 AM PDT by FromTheSidelines ("everything that deceives, also enchants" - Plato)
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To: maine-iac7

Elephants and mammoths both lived on the Earth at the same time; the latter until ~10,000 years ago with the end of the last ice age.


60 posted on 08/27/2011 12:00:55 PM PDT by FromTheSidelines ("everything that deceives, also enchants" - Plato)
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