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Study Detects Recent Instance of Human Evolution
The New York Times is running a Sunday article regarding new evidence about 'recent' human evolution. A research team at the University of Maryland has done some work looking at the rise of lactose tolerance in the human populations of Africa. From the article: "The principal mutation, found among Nilo-Saharan-speaking ethnic groups of Kenya and Tanzania, arose 2,700 to 6,800 years ago, according to genetic estimates, Dr. Tishkoff's group is to report in the journal Nature Genetics on Monday. This fits well with archaeological evidence suggesting that pastoral peoples from the north reached northern Kenya about 4,500 years ago and southern Kenya and Tanzania 3,300 years ago ... Genetic evidence shows that the mutations conferred an enormous selective advantage on their owners, enabling them to leave almost 10 times as many descendants as people without them. The mutations have created 'one of the strongest genetic signatures of natural selection yet reported in humans,' the researchers write. "
But evolution didn't happen surely! Jebus put us here just like this! The fossils are lies I tell you!
I never get used to these constant resurrections
creationists won't listen to any proof even if you slam it right in their face. they are a lost cause, and need to be treated as an enemy of reason and logic.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Be careful, you are dangerously close to saying you DON'T think Jehovah made the world 6000 years ago, and you think humans "evolved" instead of being sprung, fully-developed from the Word of God.
Oh, and don't forget where women came from.
I keep hearing that "evolutionism" or "Darwinism" is just another religion and that there's no real proof of it.
This IS God's own USA after all.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Evolutionists, when debating creationists, have always pointed to the biblical account of Adam and Eve claiming that it is an impossible story. Evolutionists will frequently claim that Adam and Eve could not possibly have populated the earth on their own. However, if one actually reads the bible for themselves we find...
Genesis 1:24 to 1:31 documents the sixth day of creation. These verses clearly state that God created man (aka mankind) on the sixth day.
Gen 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."
Gen 1:31 "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the sixth day."
So, on the seventh day God rested. Then the day after, God created Adam. God created Adam and Eve separately from the sixth day man because from Adam and Eve would eventually come He that offers salvation to the world, Jesus Christ.
Now remember, it is written that 1 day with the Lord is as a 1000 to man...
2 Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
So the six days of creation were each 1000 years long in man's years. Therefore the people that were created on the sixth day were living and procreating on earth for a 1000 years during the 7th day. These are the people whom Adam and Eve's children would marry, these are the people whom Cain would take a wife.
I say that the Bible is factual and true. It is of God, it is God's word and the Gospel of Christ and if evolutionists are going to be critical of the Bible they should at least try reading it with understanding first. Evolution is not only unbiblical it is a fantasy concocted by secular humanists. I say to thee Repent!