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DNA Suggests Three Basic Human Groups
Death Metal writes "All of Earth's people, according to a new analysis of the genomes of 53 populations, fall into just three genetic groups. They are the products of the first and most important journey our species made — the walk out of Africa about 70,000 years ago by a small fraction of ancestral Homo sapiens."
Please peddle your bronze age myths elsewhere... thanks.
...geology, biology and paleontology...
All of the scientists that study this field of study and others as well, make the assumption that it is valid to extrapolate present day processes linearly into the past. The fact of the matter is that few things in nature are linear. Another assumption that is made is that the constants of nature, such as atomic clocks used to measure time are invariant over large periods of time. Again the one thing that does constant about nature is change.
All theory is gray
People who wish to believe in the Bible and the God of the Bible will go to great lengths to come up with other, usually more complicated explanations for data.
There, fixed that for you. Seriously though, I think this was already pretty pithily handled above.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
It's a collection of stories that are supposed to keep people in line so they can work as a society. Human isn't made to work in groups of 100 and more individuals. If anything, we're pack animals. Think of you, your family and your friends. Groups of 10 or 15 work ok, and you would cooperate or even defend those 10-15 people. For the rest of the people in your home town... pffft, if they drop dead, you'd probably be happily surprised because there's free stuff (provided no laws and no law enforcement existed).
In comes an all seeing God that gives you rules to live by. Don't steal, don't kill, don't lie... summed up, be able to work together with a larger group. Since surveillance cams weren't the fad yet some 1000 years ago, they installed a supernatural cam.
Basically the Bible does what pretty much all religions man invented in its existance does: It creates cohesion for a group that's larger than what the normal person can work with.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
...you don't know what you're talking about...
Of course you do know what you are talking about because you were there at that time and throughout history to watch the development of the human race.
All theory is gray
Ah yes, the last redoubt of the foolish; epistemological nihilism.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
...lots of facts that indeed have been demonstrated utterly false...
The fact is that there is not one square inch on the surface of earth that has not been underwater at some point. It is also a fact that fossils were found nearly everywhere and fossils cannot form without a) water b) quickly. Any slow process only results in decay that does not make a fossil. A catastrophic worldwide flood provides both the water and the quick burial to prevent decay. It says that the fountains of the great broke open. this means that the water may have been hot as well, thereby contributing to the sterilization of living matter so that fossils could form.
All theory is gray
...Once you get supervolcanoes involved....
The source of the water of the flood is far deeper than any super-volcano which is limited to the crust of the earth. However, there is enough water in the mantle to fill the ocean several times over. Also, even today's ocean would cover the earth over a mile deep, if the earth were perfectly flat. If you desire to read more about this,look here:
http://biblicalgeology.net/Answer/Where-did-all-the-water-come-from.html
All theory is gray