RE: Christians. Could you be wrong?
August 15, 2014 at 2:01 pm
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2014 at 2:14 pm by JesusHChrist.)
(August 15, 2014 at 2:00 pm)Undeceived Wrote:(August 15, 2014 at 10:28 am)JesusHChrist Wrote: No Adam and Eve - we know this from genetics
In what way? Isn't the "mitochondrial eve" generally accepted among secular scientists? Even evolutionists agree that all genes trace back to one man/woman.
Yes, but that man/woman never met. They are from two different genetic lines, in two different geographies, hundreds of miles apart. Probably millenia apart as well.
And also note, mitochondrial eve was not the only human female alive at the time. Her genetic line is merely the only one that survived.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
Quote:Mitochondrial Eve is named after mitochondria and the biblical Eve.[2] Unlike her biblical namesake, she was not the only living human female of her time. However, her female contemporaries, except her mother, failed to produce a direct unbroken female line to any living woman in the present day.
Mitochondrial Eve is estimated to have lived between 99,000 and 200,000 years ago,[3][4][5] most likely in East Africa,[6] when Homo sapiens sapiens (anatomically modern humans) were developing as a population distinct from other human sub-species.
Mitochondrial Eve lived later than Homo heidelbergensis and the emergence of Homo neanderthalensis, but earlier than the out of Africa migration.[7] The dating for "Eve" was a blow to the multiregional hypothesis and a boost to the theory of the origin and dispersion of modern humans from Africa, replacing more "archaic" human populations such as Neanderthals. As a result, a consensus emerged among anthropologists that the latter theory was more plausible.
Analogous to the Mitochondrial Eve is the Y-chromosomal Adam, the member of Homo sapiens sapiens from whom all living humans are descended patrilineally. The inherited DNA in the male case is his nuclear Y chromosome rather than the mtDNA. Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam need not have lived at the same time.[8] For example, Y-chromosomal Adam has been estimated to have lived during a wide range of times from 180,000 to 581,000 years ago,[9][10][11] while a 2013 paper concluded that he lived between 120,000 and 156,000 years ago[5][12] (however, this paper did not include some Cameroonians and one African American, who did not inherit their Y from that "Adam"[10]).