Mitochondrial Eve

Noah was Y Chromosome Adam, but placing the Patriarchs on the Y tree is difficult when many alternate hypotheses exist

Drift is a comprehensive population genetics modeling software developed for the creationist community for answering both basic and advanced questions about biblical genetics.

We respond to a question about the out-of-Africa hypothesis, Mitochondrial Eve, and consider the implications for the way we value human beings.

Genetics has created confusion for evolutionary hypotheses of human origins, but confirmed the biblical framework.

How much genetic diversity did humanity lose because of Noah’s Flood?

Is human genetic diversity consistent with Noahs Flood?

It does not add up for the evolutionary story.

A reader points out that a Biologos article contradicts what CMI has published. Who is right?

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

1 Peter 3:15 instructs Christians to ‘always be ready to give an answer’ yet with ‘gentleness and respect’—even to atheists. Also, we update a reader enquiring about ‘mitochondrial Eve’.

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.

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) supports the Bible timeframe and descent of all people from Eve.