Robert1985

Well, this is my playground. The reason why it doesn't strictly double is because "most marriages are between sixth cousins", i.e. you don't add two independent people each generation, sometimes it's not a new branch on the tree, just a branch from another part of the tree. Not to mention death and infertility. You may not realise it, but this is how the Ephraimite error is presented. Basically, we are all 'Israel', part of the lost 10 northern tribes. I wonder who the gentiles are . I do understand why "it doesn't strictly double", but I have never heard of the Ephraimite error - I'll google it after I finish this post; it sounds interesting. You may be interested in a paper about the Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) by Rohde, Olson and Chang in 2004. It's got some pretty hefty mathematics in it, but as you say: that is your playground. http://steveolson.com/uploads/2009/04/nature-common-ancestors2.pdf Their analysis "suggest that the genealogies of all living humans overlap in remarkable ways in the recent past. In particular, the MRCA of all present-day humans lived just a few thousand years ago..." and they go on to say, "the MRCA appears in about the year 300 BC, and all modern individuals have identical ancestors by about 3,000 BC." They quickly add, "Such estimates are extremely tentative, and the model contains several obvious sources of error, as it was motivated more by considerations of theoretical insight and tractability than by realism." Nevertheless, it's an interesting idea - hence my earlier post.

I know many who believe the Bible who are not Christian...they believe it is literally true...and could care less. America has been like a superpower for roundabout 200 yrs now...that is the average. History tells me so lol. As for us being mentioned in the Bible I can't say for sure yes or no...neither can anyone here since it isn't exactly mentioned by name. This country is in serious trouble. Spiritually, and politically...the "sheeple" tend to go with the flow and believe what they are told. I don't understand - are you replying to my post? I didn't say anything about people caring or not caring, or super powers, or which countries are mentioned in the bible. Perhaps you've got me mixed up with someone else?

You can't add those percentages together, they are not independent. God will save the righteous, regardless. Oh yes, you can add them together. The survey asked respondents to choose one of the three options. Choosing one option immediately excluded the other two options.

In this recent Gallup Poll it was found that 49% of Americans believe the bible is literally true and another 30% think it is the inspired word of God - that's 79% of the population who are good Christians. When God destroyed the Earth in a flood he saved the righteous people (Noah and his family) and when he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah he saved the righteous people (Lot and his family). Based on past experience then, I think that God will save the righteous people in America - hundreds of millions of them according to the Gallup Poll.

There is a saying among researchers of family trees that every family has a princess and a castle. What they mean is that the further you go back in time, the more people there are in your family tree and the greater thechance that you will be directly (albeit distantly) related to royalty. Think of it this way: 2 parents 4 grandparents 8 great grandparents The number doubles every generation. After 10 generations you can trace a direct line back to 1,024 people (great great great [...] grandparents) After 20 generations: 1,048,576 people After 30 generations: more than a billion people. After 40 generations: more than a trillion people. But there have never been more than a trillion people born on this planet. At this website it is estimated that there have been 106 billion people born throughout history. This has been explained on another website which says that most marriages are between sixth cousins which means they share great great great great great grandparents. Now I don't have the expertise to properly analyse those figures, but the chances are that all of us are related to each other. Not only would there be people in the middle east related to Jesus, the chances are that YOU are related to Jesus (and probably any other famous historical character you care to mention).