Scientists have long believed that there was no scientific evidence supporting a global flood. Some have claimed to have seen a large object on Mount Ararat and others have shown how the dimensions and instructions given to Noah would have been sufficient to accomplish the task at hand. However, most scientists continue to be not convinced.
However recent studies in DNA have shed new light on the subject.
Can today's human diversity come from just three couples?
– as little as 10 years ago, this was one of the ‘gotcha’ questions regarding
the veracity of the Bible. Evolutionists required hundreds of thousands if not millions of years to explain the diversity of the various races. However that has all changed with DNA Genome:
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In humans, each cell normally contains 23
pairs of chromosomes, for a total of 46. Twenty-two of these
pairs, look the same in both males and
females. The 23rd pair, the sex chromosomes, differs between males and females.
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The Human Genome Project was declared complete
in April 2003. One of its findings was that all humans have virtually
identical DNA. They suggested that this is due to a population
bottleneck in our past, where our numbers dwindled so low that
we teetered on the brink of extinction.
Genesis states that eight people were on the Ark: Noah
and his wife, their three sons and their three wives. So:
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There should be signs of a population bottleneck
in which humanity almost became extinct.
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Mitochondria are little compartments inside each
of our cells which house the components to produce the cell's energy. They have
their own, separate strand of DNA (separate from the main/nuclear/chromosomal
DNA) and it's called Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Since only the mitochondria
contained in the fertilized egg are used at conception, mtDNA is only inherited
from the mother.
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Scientists have discovered there are three main
mtDNA lineages found worldwide today. Evolutionists have labeled these
lines “M”, “N”, and “R”.
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Noah had three sons, each son had a wife which
could be named “M”, “N” and “R” (interesting, these wives are not named in the
Bible)
Scientists today identify Haplogroups M, N and R occurred
somewhere between East Africa and the Persian Gulf. The Bible says there was a migration after
the flood:
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Shem to Asia – and Israel
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Ham to Africa
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Japheth to Europe
Since humans have virtually identical DNA,
the genetic diversity is consistent with thousands of years, not millions
of years.
1.
In biology, the most recent common
ancestor (MRCA) of any set of organisms is the most
recent individual from which all organisms in a group are directly
descended.
2.
According to Douglas L. T. Rohde Massachusetts
Institute of Technology November 11, 2003
“This study
introduces a large-scale, detailed computer model of recent human history which
suggests that the common ancestor of everyone alive today very likely lived
between 2,000 and 5,000 years ago. Furthermore, the model indicates that nearly
everyone living a few thousand years prior to that time is either the ancestor
of no one or of all living humans.”
Note how science is getting closer to understanding the
true origin of man. It is not billions,
not millions, but 10s of thousands of years - - much closer to what the 'young earth' proponents suggest.
