(May 12, 2018 at 4:31 am)CDF47 Wrote:OK now you are flat out lying. Science does not trace DNA back to a single couple at all.(May 12, 2018 at 4:01 am)pocaracas Wrote: You'll understand if we don't accept scripture as representative of anything that actually happened... for the most part, at least.
Hmm... you're a new kind I haven't yet encountered...
Explain to me how that works.
Do you accept the 4.3 billion year Earth, but it was created in 6 days, with humans and all animals already in it, pretty much as we see it today?
If kind is a species, then how do you account for the fossil record?
Absence of humans in rock layers older than 2 million years?
Absence of dinosaurs in layers younger than 65 million years and older than 250 million years?
Absence of birds prior to dinosaurs?
Absence of land animals prior to water animals?
Absence of humans prior to apes?
And many other pieces of the puzzle of life on Earth that fit neatly under the model of evolution?
Also, what if I show you how evolution in the lab has resulted in a new species?
Yes, I believe the earth is 4.54 billion years old. I believe each day that went by for God outside this universe, eons were going by inside of the universe. Below is a chart of the Day-Age Interpretation of Genesis which I believe in:
http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/day-age.html
There are no intermediary species though. Sure water animals came before land animals,..., but that doesn't mean everyone had a common ancestor. I believe all men and all women had a common ancestor in the first male and female on earth. Science now shows DNA dates back to a single man and a single woman.
Sure, I will look at the lab results.
Mitochondrial Eve is the MRCA matrineally. It is not one individual but changes over time.
Y-Chromosomal Adam is the MRCA patrineally. Again it is not one individual but changes over time.
Neither of them could possibly have ever met.