Author Topic: We all came from a single couple 200,000 years ago (Read 1241 times)

MillCreek · « **on:** November 25, 2018, 12:05:21 AM »

https://nypost.com/2018/11/24/turns-out-all-of-humanity-is-related-to-a-single-couple/

I am pretty sure this was already revealed in the series finale of 'Battlestar Galactica'.

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #1 on:** November 25, 2018, 12:33:47 AM »

I remember reading a book that mentioned something like that. My parents had it. Short title, began with 'B' as I recall.

Angel Eyes · « **Reply #2 on:** November 25, 2018, 12:46:33 AM »

I think you mean 'H'.

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #3 on:** November 25, 2018, 02:10:35 AM »

Quote from: Angel Eyes on November 25, 2018, 12:46:33 AM

I think you mean 'H'.

Quite so.

charby · « **Reply #4 on:** November 25, 2018, 07:53:24 AM »

Hello my incestrial cousins.

Devonai · « **Reply #5 on:** November 25, 2018, 09:16:22 AM »

I'm blaming you for being average-looking.

TommyGunn · « **Reply #6 on:** November 25, 2018, 01:18:24 PM »

Adam and Eve. It's in the Bible. Now it's SCIENCE!

Ron · « **Reply #7 on:** November 25, 2018, 01:33:03 PM »

They must have had some good genes.

lee n. field · « **Reply #8 on:** November 25, 2018, 01:52:55 PM »

Quote from: MillCreek on November 25, 2018, 12:05:21 AM

https://nypost.com/2018/11/24/turns-out-all-of-humanity-is-related-to-a-single-couple/

I am pretty sure this was already revealed in the series finale of 'Battlestar Galactica'.

My understanding is, a large percentage of animals also have this marker that points to an extreme bottleneck at about the same time. What sense to they try to make of that?

MechAg94 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 25, 2018, 02:41:41 PM »

Quote from: lee n. field on November 25, 2018, 01:52:55 PM

My understanding is, a large percentage of animals also have this marker that points to an extreme bottleneck at about the same time. What sense to they try to make of that?

Maybe a big flood?

230RN · « **Reply #10 on:** November 25, 2018, 05:59:25 PM »

Does 200,000 years match up with the Biblical flood?

(Not being a wise guy, just curious.)

grampster · « **Reply #11 on:** November 25, 2018, 06:14:05 PM »

I suppose that depends on how long a day was in the early days of the Erf.

just Warren · « **Reply #12 on:** November 25, 2018, 06:19:41 PM »

And do any of us ever call them? How hard is it to pick up a phone? Just once in awhile, no need to make a big production out of it!

charby · « **Reply #13 on:** November 25, 2018, 07:23:21 PM »

Quote from: 230RN on November 25, 2018, 05:59:25 PM

Does 200,000 years match up with the Biblical flood?

(Not being a wise guy, just curious.)

I think a consensus among scholars that there was major global flooding 7000-9000 years ago as the glaciers melted. This is usually coincided with the biblical flood.

dogmush · « **Reply #14 on:** November 25, 2018, 07:28:19 PM »

Quote from: grampster on November 25, 2018, 06:14:05 PM

I suppose that depends on how long a day was in the early days of the Erf.

The day is theorized to have been much shorter in the early days, as the Moon has a braking effect on the Earth's spin. 200,000 years ago, however, isn't long enough ago to have much difference. Maybe 5 sec or so.

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Does 200,000 years match up with the Biblical flood?

(Not being a wise guy, just curious.)

My understanding is no it does not, but I'm far from an expert on the subject.

The articles I have read on the whole "Mitochondrial Eve" or this DNA Barcode stuff actually says there was likely a cataclysm of some kind and the population was reduced to under 5000. But a single couple sells more headlines.

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #15 on:** November 25, 2018, 08:02:50 PM »

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The articles I have read on the whole "Mitochondrial Eve" or this DNA Barcode stuff actually says there was likely a cataclysm of some kind and the population was reduced to under 5000. But a single couple sells more headlines.

Ahhh....The good old days...

grampster · « **Reply #16 on:** November 25, 2018, 11:44:53 PM »

Not to go all bible on ya, but....There is an allegorical comment about how long days and years may have been a very long time ago when no records were kept. Peter 3:8.

My Christian brothers and sisters always seem to be at each other's throats about "time". To me it's fairly simple. Isaiah 55:8-9. If there is a God, and He made the Universe, I suppose he could do anything within it that would suit His purpose. Nit picking is always fun, but sometimes, as the old adage says, "You can't see the forest for the trees."

French G. · « **Reply #17 on:** November 26, 2018, 12:47:01 AM »

Yeah, but y'all are from the inbred side of the family.

I never saw a conflict with the Genesis story and evolution. It's an allegory, not a legal deposition.

230RN · « **Reply #18 on:** November 26, 2018, 03:28:59 AM »

Quote from: French G. on November 26, 2018, 12:47:01 AM

Yeah, but y'all are from the inbred side of the family.

I never saw a conflict with the Genesis story and evolution. It's an allegory, not a legal deposition.

Ditto. I even wrote extensively on this, but it's not in electronic form. Unpublished typewritten novel. And I'm sure you can see why: neither "evolutionists" nor "creationists" liked it.

"...not a legal deposition..." I couched that in terms of a literal description of things as they understood them in their time.

Sorta kinda like how a little kid would describe mommy and daddy "fighting" on coming across his parents having really great sex, or, for that matter, Ezekiel's description of what we now characterize as "UFOs."

Yeah, I know. No wonder it was unpublished, right?

Terry

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #19 on:** November 26, 2018, 06:06:00 AM »

Quote from: 230RN on November 26, 2018, 03:28:59 AM

Ditto. I even wrote extensively on this, but it's not in electronic form. Unpublished novel. And I'm sure you can see why: neither "evolutionists" nor "creationists" liked it.

"...not a legal deposition..." I couched that in terms of a literal description of things as they understood them in their time.

Sorta kinda like how a little kid would describe mommy and daddy "fighting" on coming across his parents having really great sex, or, for that matter, Ezekiel's description of what we now characterize as "UFOs."

Yeah, I know. No wonder it was unpublished, right?

Don't give up. Now you can self-publish it for next to nothing. eBooks and print-on-demand can make it happen.

Perhaps Devonai can offer some guidance in this regard.

lee n. field · « **Reply #20 on:** November 26, 2018, 08:31:39 AM »

Quote from: French G. on November 26, 2018, 12:47:01 AM

Yeah, but y'all are from the inbred side of the family.

I never saw a conflict with the Genesis story and evolution. It's an allegory, not a legal deposition.

More like a treaty. (Really. There's a lot of discussion out there about how the Bible uses Ancient Near East treaty forms.)

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Author Topic: We all came from a single couple 200,000 years ago (Read 1241 times)