The Genographic Project

[seraph]

The Genographic Project: this is really interesting...

National Geographic, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation are conducting a five-year study of the world's largest collection of DNA samples (from hundreds of thousands of indigenous people and the general public) to study genetic markers and map how humans populated the planet. (They say you can even participate in the project and find where and when some of your earliest relatives originated and how they lived.)

I am curious how y

[other one]

And her name was Eve and I don't think she came from Africa, and I don't think it was 8 million years ago......

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[seraph]

Don't you think they could run a similar collection of DNA with apes and prove we don't have monkeyboys hanging from out family tree? Couldn't they trace them back and find apes were apes and humans were humans and missing links were either one thing or another but not some transitional species? (facts we already know!) I mean many scientists still think "Lucy" is a missing link because even though the skulls were ape-like, they had human-like teeth and a spinal column indicating it walked and ran while upright? Big woop. Do you think tests like these have the potential to disprove evolution?

[Guest Zayit]

I think this is a great way to trace you back to either Japheth, Shem or Ham, but what will they do with this info, that is the BIG question and you know HaSatan will not let this go unused, he probably planted the idea in the first place.

[ann2]

I am not smart when it comes to science but i do know what evolve mean..it means to change into something else.So here is the question,if we evolved from monkeys{which i dont believe} why are there still monkeys?

[seraph]

I agree with you, ann2, and I think the scientists would be doing themselves a favor if they asked themselves that very question!

Zayit, I had questions in regards to that as well. I think it could be used to prove the truth of the Biblical account of creation and some of the "begats", but as Satan always does he could twist it for his benefit... there are certainly many ways he could use it.

[Scarletprayers]

I am not smart when it comes to science but i do know what evolve mean..it means to change into something else.So here is the question,if we evolved from monkeys{which i dont believe} why are there still monkeys?

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Why did the other monkeys decided not to come along for the ride? I'm with you ann2, it just doesn't make any sense to me either!

[RGR]

All of that was about as clear as mud to me, Seraph!

[fenwar]

I am not smart when it comes to science but i do know what evolve mean..it means to change into something else.So here is the question,if we evolved from monkeys{which i dont believe} why are there still monkeys?

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"We evolved from monkeys" is a very simplistic but possibly misleading way of describing evolution. A more accurate way of putting the theory would be to say that men and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor, several thousands of generations ago.

Evolution is change within a population, over time. If you divide up a population of monkey-like creatures into two groups - say A and B - and keep them apart for a few thousand generations, chances are that the descendants of group A will have evolved in a different direction to those in group B; they will no longer be able to interbreed and you have two separate species.

That's the theory, anyway... the archaeological evidence so far fits this picture and genetic studies like this one should be helpful in putting the jigsaw together.

Here is a useful article with a Christian perspective on common descent.

Fenwar

[other one]

I think this is a great way to trace you back to either Japheth, Shem or Ham, but what will they do with this info, that is the BIG question and you know HaSatan will not let this go unused, he probably planted the idea in the first place.

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