sigh, typical evolutionist "just so" stories.
According to these evIlutionists, all humans on Earth are related by a common ancestor. But this is only their wild-guess assumption, they have no evidence.
Think about it. They believe the races came about by random chance and chaos?? LOL no way! The races are too complex and ordered to come about by chance. The Europeans, Africans, Asians, South Americans, etc must all have been created by an intelligent designer as seperate kinds. All were created fully formed.
Noone has ever seen a new race evolve, even though scientists have been trying to do it in labs for decades! The reason is because the evolution of a new race requires an increase of information which is disproven by the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
Genetic similarities between races are NOT evidence of common descent! They are equally evidence of COMMON DESIGN!
What gets me is some Creationists accept this rubbish and think all races share a common ancestor with some "Adam and Eve". Can't they see that this is a materialist-atheism belief as it denies God-creation of the races in favour of the religion of random nature-chance?
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I was just about to type an extremely sharp response when I noticed my patented "irony-o-detecter" dial bending its needle against the pin at the end of its travel. Then the needle snapped under the strain. You owe me one irony detector.
"But this is only their wild-guess assumption, they have no evidence. "
Apparently you've never seen the haplotype map showing the divergence from a single root. willful blindnes makes you look foolish.
Who's to say that God didn't create the races over the ages with sun, wind, cold and heat?
I've never been able to see the disagreement between Evolution and Creationism....
I 'evolved' from a monkey. Didn't God make monkeys? Didn't he create man 'out of rude clay'?
Fathers can be influential tooBiologists have warned for some years that paternal mitochondria do penetrate the human egg and survive for several hours... Erika Hagelberg from the University of Cambridge, UK, and colleagues... were carrying out a study of mitochondrial DNAs from hundreds of people from Papua-New Guinea and the Melanesian islands in order to study the history of human migration into this region of the western Pacific... People from all three mitochondrial groups live on Nguna. And, in all three groups, Hagelberg's group found the same mutation, a mutation previously seen only in an individual from northern Europe, and nowhere else in Melanesia, or for that matter anywhere else in the world... Adam Eyre-Walker, Noel Smith and John Maynard Smith from the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK confirm this view with a mathematical analysis of the occurrence of the so-called 'homoplasies' that appear in human mitochondrial DNA... reanalysis of a selection of European and African mitochondrial DNA sequences by the Sussex researchers suggests that recombination is a far more likely cause of the homoplasies, as they find no evidence that these sites are particularly variable over all lineages.
by Eleanor LawrenceIs Eve older than we thought?"Two studies prove that the estimation of both when and where humanity first arose could be seriously flawed... The ruler scientists have been using is based on genetic changes in mitochondria, simple bacteria that live inside us and control the energy requirements of our cells. Mitochondria are passed from mother to daughter and their genes mutate at a set rate which can be estimated - so many mutations per 1,000 years... However, these calculations are based upon a major assumption which, according to Prof John Maynard Smith, from Sussex University, is 'simply wrong'. The idea that underpins this dating technique is that mitochondria, like some kinds of bacteria, do not have sex... Two groups of researchers, Prof Maynard Smith and colleagues Adam Eyre-Walker and Noel Smith, also from Sussex, and Dr Erika Hagelberg and colleagues from the University of Otago, New Zealand, have found that mitochondria do indeed have sex - which means that genes from both males and females is mixed and the DNA in their offspring is very different... Prof Maynard Smith and his colleagues stumbled over mitochondria having sex in the process of tracking the spread of bacterial resistance to meningitis... For the 'out-of-Africa' theory to hold water, the first population would have to have been very small. Sexually rampant mitochondria may put paid to this idea. Maynard Smith thinks that the origin of humanity is much older - may be twice as old - which, according to Eyre-Walker, means we are likely to have evolved in many different areas of the world and did not descend from Eve in Africa."
by Sanjida O'Connell 15th April 1999Neanderthals Like UsEven today, features thought to be Neanderthal are as familiar as the portraits in a grandparent's home: the sloping forehead, the heavy brow, the stocky, big-boned physique... many Neanderthal features persist in European visages today: a unique hole in the jawbone, the shape of a suture in the cheek, a highly angled nose... Meanwhile, archaeologists are questioning their assumptions about the Neanderthal lifestyle. In particular, it has become less clear exactly who invented the Upper Paleolithic. One assemblage in France, dated between 39,000 and 34,000 years ago, has bone and shell pendants, carved teeth and beads, as well as finely worked tools like the Cro-Magnons used. But the only bones found with this technology are Neanderthal... [Ian] Tattersall says studies that use DNA from contemporary populations to reconstruct human genealogy support the idea of a single, small source of Homo sapiens... The mtDNA extracted from Neanderthal bones doesn't match anything in the modern world. But last year, when geneticists compared mtDNA from an early modern Australian with contemporary mtDNA, it didn't match either."
by Karen Wright