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Can we place the sons of Noah on the Y chromosome tree?

Can we place the sons of Noah on the Y chromosome tree?

Noah was Y Chromosome Adam, but placing the Patriarchs on the Y tree is difficult when many alternate hypotheses exist
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29 Oct, 2024
‘DNA Journey’ traces the ancestry of celebrities in Africa

‘DNA Journey’ traces the ancestry of celebrities in Africa

Response to a question about the out-of-Africa evolutionary hypothesis, mitochondrial Eve, and implications for racism, and valuing humanity.
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25 May, 2023
Genetics supports a biblical model of human origins

Genetics supports a biblical model of human origins

Genetics has created confusion for evolutionary hypotheses of human origins, but confirmed the biblical framework.
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25 Jun, 2021
Effective population sizes and the Flood bottleneck

Effective population sizes and the Flood bottleneck

Humanity lost around 30% of its created genetic diversity through Noahs Flood, which may have contributed to reduced lifespans.
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06 Dec, 2019
Genetic effects of the Flood bottleneck

Genetic effects of the Flood bottleneck

The Genesis Flood caused a drop in human genetic diversity through a population bottleneck.
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29 Nov, 2019
Recent origin of species

Recent origin of species

Almost all the current species have expanded from mitochondrial uniformity within the past 200,000 years.
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19 Dec, 2018
Genetics-primal-couple

Genetics-primal-couple

Robert Carter answers a question about how genetics confirms the Bibles history in Genesis and our descent from one couple.
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30 Apr, 2011
Noah and Genetics

Noah and Genetics

Genetic evidence indicates we all come from just two people (Adam and Eve), and that there was subsequently a dramatic population crash (at the time of Noah
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11 May, 2010
Gentle answer mt dna

Gentle answer mt dna

Following the Global Atheist Convention, Tas Walker answers a hostile atheist with gentleness and respect; CMI updates a reader with the latest about
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03 Apr, 2010
Mitochondrial Eve and biblical Eve are looking good: criticism of young age is premature

Mitochondrial Eve and biblical Eve are looking good: criticism of young age is premature

The critic fails to address the issues, using bluff and bluster. The data are consistent with there being one mother of all humans and within the Bible’s time frame.
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06 Jul, 2006